The main aim of this research was to study the effects of a specific exercise program on the speed of behavior of older adults during on-the-road driving. Twenty-six drivers (55-78 yr old) were randomly assigned to either an exercise group or a control group. The exercise program (3 sessions of 60 min/wk for 8 wk) incorporated tasks that induced the participants to respond quickly to challengin...

background and aim: tinnitus is perception of sound in absence of external source. reaction time is the time between sensory stimuli and a behavior. alternation of auditory reaction time has been shown in the literature in patients with tinnitus. this study has investigated the auditory reaction time in quiet and noise to different frequencies. methods: fifteen subjects with chronic tinnitus pa...

PURPOSE To evaluate the ability of longitudinal Useful Field of View (UFOV) and simulated driving measurements to predict future occurrence of motor vehicle collision (MVC) in drivers with glaucoma. DESIGN Prospective observational cohort study. PARTICIPANTS 117 drivers with glaucoma followed for an average of 2.1 ± 0.5 years. METHODS All subjects had standard automated perimetry (SAP), U...

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) are designed to help drivers improve driving safety. However, automation modifying the way drivers interact with their vehicle, it is important to avoid negative safety impacts. In particular, the change in drivers’ behavior introduced by ADAS in situations they are not designed for, should be carefully examined. We carried out an experiment on a drivin...

results our study showed that the sensitivity and specificity of taqman real time pcr was 96% and 95% respectively. these values were 89% and 90, 38% and 100%, 6% and 100% for pcr, culture and microscopy, respectively. conclusions our study showed that sensitivity of taqman real time pcr was higher that pcr, culture and microscopy but specificity of culture and microscopy was more than pcr and ...

A mathematical driver model is given in the spacial equation form, which takes into account the previewed information of the path. Optimal control method is considered for the ideal no time-delay case and Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional approach is applied to deal with drivers’ reaction time-delay. For both cases, exponential stability is guaranteed for the closedloop system.

46 participants (24 younger and 22 older) completed at least one out of four simulated drives designed to test the effectiveness of an Adaptive Lane Deviation Warning (LDW) system, and they drove through both a warnings-on and warnings-off version of each drive. Findings showed that LDW was effective in reducing reaction time for lane deviation corrections for both older (by 1.2 seconds) and yo...

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...

Study of traffic flow dynamics has attracted considerable attention for decades. One way to thoroughly understand traffic flow is to study how each vehicle in traffic interacts with each other, through drivers’ acceleration/deceleration decisions. Such decisions are strongly influenced by reaction delays of drivers, which arise naturally due to drivers’ physiology, perception, and motor program...