It has frequently been claimed that cycling in heavy traffic is unhealthy, more so than driving a car. To test this hypothesis, teams of two cyclists and two car drivers in two cars were equipped with personal air samplers while driving for 4 h on 2 different days in the morning traffic of Copenhagen. The air sample charcoal tubes were analysed for their benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylen...

Today a fast real-time and robust automatic vehicle system is required to increase driving safety as the manned driving is getting extremely numbered, so are those of traffic jams, bad, dangerous and rough drivers and more importantly, accidents. Automatic recognition of traffic signs is also important for automated intelligent driving vehicle or driver assistance systems. This paper presents a...

Performance of speech recognition systems strongly degrades in the presence of background noise, like the driving noise inside a car. In contrast to existing works, we aim to improve noise robustness focusing on all major levels of speech recognition: feature extraction, feature enhancement, speech modelling, and training. Thereby, we give an overview of promising auditory modelling concepts, s...

As an intuitive hands-free input modality automatic spelling recognition is especially useful for in-car human-machine interfaces. However, for today’s speech recognition engines it is extremely challenging to cope with similar sounding spelling speech sequences in the presence of noises such as the driving noise inside a car. Thus, we propose a novel Tandem spelling recogniser, combining a Hid...

The study of human behavior during driving is of primary importance for the improvement of drivers' security. This study is complex because of numerous situations in which the driver may be involved. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical fuzzy system for human in a driver-vehicle-environment system to model takeover by different drivers. The driver’s behavior is affected by the environment. ...

A wide range of in-car computing systems are either already in existence or under development which aim to improve the safety, efficiency and the comfort/pleasure of the driving experience. Several unique forces act on the design process for this technology which must be understood by HCI researchers. In particular, this is an area in which safety concerns dominate perspectives. In this positio...

Intelligent vehicle platoon driving is a process of the flexible formation based on the coordination between vehicle and highway in the intelligent vehicle-highway system, which can increase the controllability of traffic, simplify the complexity of traffic control, and ease the traffic pressure. It has been constructed that the intelligent vehicle platoon driving simulation experiment system u...

Voice enabled dialog systems are well suited for in-car applications. Driving is an eyes-busy and hands-busy task and the only wideband communication channel left is speech. Such systems are in the midst of a transformation from a cool gadget to an integral part of the modern automobile. In this paper we highlight the major requirements for an in-car dialog system including usability during con...

Driving simulators emerged as a promising technology for the analysis of driving conditions and road users’ behaviour in an attempt to tackle the problem of road accidents. The work presented herein demonstrates the design and development of a driving simulator that aims to contribute towards evaluating black spots in road networks by promoting rapid design of realistic models and facilitating ...