Many different experimental methods are used to evaluate driving performance as well as to evaluate the effectiveness of various vehicle safety systems but the results often do not match between different experimental approaches. This study aimed to determine the extent to which results can be matched between a driving simulator and a test track when carefully designed studies are used to repli...

We present in this paper a platform which integrates the different animation models: descriptive, generative and behavioural models. The integration of these models in the same platform permits to offer to each dynamic entity a more realistic and a richer environment, and thereby to increase possible interactions between an actor and its environment. Therefore we describe the unification and th...

Alarm timing for a forward collision warning system plays an important role in system effectiveness. It is necessary to determine the appropriate alarm timing by considering a driver’s response to not only true alarms but also how drivers respond when an alarm should have been issued but was not (missed alarms) to evaluate both the increased system effectiveness and decreased over-reliance on t...

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This study presents the conceptual design of an intersection bus-pedestrian collision warning system for bus drivers approaching an intersection. The basic parameters of the proposed design concept include the bus drivers’ perception-reaction time, the emergency deceleration rate of the bus, and pedestrian walking speed. A bus driving simulation was designed and conducted to analyze bus drivers...

This paper presents a generic method to evaluate virtual agents that aim at reproducing humans behaviors in an immersive virtual environment. We first use automated clustering of simulation logs to extract humans behaviors. We then propose an aggregation of the agents logs into those clusters to analyze the credibility of agents behaviors in terms of capacities, lacks, and errors by comparing t...

The poster shows initial results at the question to what extent driving simulators can be used to serve as cheap and easy realizable environments for simulating on-the-road behavior. We have conducted two studies comparing the driver’s reaction time in real and simulated settings with the aim to provide a metric for the differences in reaction time. The events were triggered trace-driven (simul...