This paper proposes a vehicle detection system for identifying the moving vehicles at night which is far distance away by locating their rear-lights in the road. Many advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), such as collision mitigation, automatic cruise control (ACC) and automatic headlamp dimming were proposed by many researchers for driver assistance. We present a novel image processing sy...

human factors issues associated with roadway design and operations are critical components of improving highway safety. first, the three major components of highway safety are driver behavior, vehicle safety, and roadway safety. the general philosophy in roadside safety follows the priorities of (1) remove the hazard, (2) relocate the hazard, (3) make the hazard forgiving, and (4) shield the ha...

The current scarcity of public charging infrastructure is one of the major barriers to mass household adoption of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs). Although most PEV drivers can recharge their vehicles at home, the limited driving range of the vehicles restricts their usefulness for long-distance travel. In this paper, an agent-based information system is presented for identifying patterns in r...

This paper considers psychological variables pertinent to driver automation. It is anticipated that driving with automated systems is likely to have a major impact on the drivers and a multiplicity of factors needs to be taken into account. A systems analysis of the driver, vehicle and automation served as the basis for eliciting psychological factors. The main variables to be considered were: ...

Driver fatigue is one of the important factors that cause traffic accidents, and the ever-increasing number due to diminished driver’s vigilance level has become a problem of serious concern to society. Drivers with a diminished vigilance level suffer from a marked decline in their abilities of perception, recognition, and vehicle control, and therefore pose serious danger to their own life and...

The expansion of Malaysia’s automobile industry has witnessed the emergence of driver assistance system (DAS) that enables the interaction between the driver and the vehicle. Over the past few years, DAS has become a necessity and is commonly found on conventional vehicles instead of as luxury equipments on high-end vehicles. The rapid development of DAS provides drivers with radically enhanced...

ISSUE ADDRESSED This retrospective study investigated the health conditions of a cohort of heavy vehicle drivers involved in a crash in Western Australia. METHODS Hospital separation records of heavy vehicle drivers admitted to hospital as a result of a road crash between 1 January 1988 and 31 December 2000 in Western Australia were analysed. Heavy vehicle drivers involved in a crash were fir...

This paper presents the results of a field test evaluating drivers’ decision making and gap acceptance for a left turn maneuver with opposite traffic; with a focus on the scenario where the turning vehicle is approaching the intersection. Twenty-three participants drove an instrumented vehicle ten times around an extended block turning left at four specific intersections. DGPS and radar data we...

Vision for intelligent vehicles is a growing area of research [6] for many practical reasons including the relatively inexpensive nature of camera sensing units and even more the non-contact and non-intrusive manner of observation. The latter is of critical importance when observing occupants inside the vehicle cockpit because no sensing unit should impede the primary task of driving. Conventio...

In this study, a control strategy to improve the fuel economy was proposed for a PHEV(plug-in hybrid electric vehicle) considering driver tendency. To identify the driver tendency, a driver model which reflects the driver tendency was developed using the driving data. The target PHEV model was developed based on MATLAB/Simulink and validation of the vehicle model was performed by experiments. F...