Background: Drinking and driving is a primary cause of traffic fatalities and it has been 8 suggested that heavy drinkers comprise a major portion of those drivers involved in drinking and 9 driving accidents. Although several experimental studies have investigated the driving behavior of 10 social drinkers or the general population under the influence of alcohol, few studies have focused on 11...

Driving is a complex behavior that recruits multiple cognitive elements. We report on an imaging study of simulated driving that reveals multiple neural systems, each of which have different activation dynamics. The neural correlates of driving behavior are identified with fMRI and their modulation with speed is investigated. We decompose the activation into interpretable pieces using a novel, ...

An internet survey has been conducted among drivers in the Netherlands and Japan to study their attitude towards Green ITS. The survey focuses on driving behavior and ITS experience, attitude towards environment, and Green ITS preferences. The results show that money-related information gives the most effective motivation for drivers to follow fuel efficient behavior; the least preferred inform...

Driving simulators are used to conduct experiments on for example driver behavior, road design, and vehicle characteristics. The results of the experiments often depend on the traffic conditions. One example is the evaluation of cellular phones and how they affect driving behavior. It is clear that the ability to use phones when driving depends on traffic intensity and composition, and that rea...

This paper presents the analysis of the stopping maneuver of the human driver by using a new three-dimensional driving simulator that uses CAVE, which provides stereoscopic immersive vision. First of all, the difference in the driving behavior between 3D and 2D virtual environments is investigated. Secondly, a GMDH is applied to the measured data in order to build a mathematical model of drivin...

This study investigated the degrees of consistencies in driving behavior when operating a real system (real car), a virtual system (high fidelity driving simulator), and a laboratory system (computer driving game). The same tendency of behavioral consistencies was confirmed among the three systems: i.e., the steering operation demonstrated the highest behavioral consistencies, followed by the a...

We study the response of a Bose-Einstein condensate to an unbiased periodic driving potential. By controlling the space and time symmetries of the driving we show how a directed current can be induced, producing a coherent quantum ratchet. Weak driving induces a regular behavior, and space and time symmetries must both be broken to produce a current. For strong driving, the behavior becomes cha...

Every year more than six million crashes occur in the USA, killing over 40.000 people and causing more than three millions of injuries [7]. A major part of these crashes are rear-end collisions. Therefore the U.S. Department of Transportation has put a lot of effort in fostering the development of rear-end collision avoidance systems by funding governmental, academic and industrial research gro...

One of the prominent issues in contemporary research on young drivers deals with the mechanisms underlying parents' influences on their offspring's driving behavior. The present study combines two sets of data: the first gathered from in-vehicle data recorders tracking the driving of parents and their teenage sons, and the second derived from self-report questionnaires completed by the young dr...