Studies from Beijing Jiaotong University Have Provided New Data on Risk Management (How does intersection field of view influence driving safety in…

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Studies from Beijing Jiaotong University Have Provided New Data on Risk Management (How does intersection field of view influence driving safety in an emergent situation?)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- Investigators discuss new findings in Risk Management. According to news originating from Beijing, People's Republic of China, by VerticalNews correspondents, research stated, "Restricted intersection field of view (IFOV) can influence drivers' hazard detection abilities and driving safety in an emergent traffic event. However, no field studies or crash-data analyses have been conducted to prove the adequateness of the current intersection sight-distance design standards, which are adopted to ensure that the approaching-intersection drivers have a sufficient field of view to detect traffic hazards and travel safely at intersections."

Funders for this research include National Natural Science Foundation of China, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Beijing Jiaotong University, "In this study, we conducted a driving simulator experiment to compare drivers' behavioral and eye-movement measures between different IFOV conditions that met the current intersection sight distance design standards. We examined the influencing mechanism of IFOV on the drivers' collision avoidance process being composed of three consequential stages, respectively in terms of search stage, decision stage and action stage. Our experiment results showed that restricted IFOV impacts the three-stage driving performance inter-lockingly. Enlarging IFOV can significantly improve drivers' performance in detecting a conflicting vehicle more timely, having a longer perception-reaction time in monitoring the hazard, spending more time on observing intersection surroundings, and taking brake actions earlier and more smoothly so that drivers were more likely to successfully avoid colliding with the conflicting vehicle. In addition, we found that compared with female drivers, male drivers were less likely to take brake actions to avoid a potential collision and had a lower deceleration rate in the braking stage of collision avoidance while there was no significant gender difference in crash involvement rates. The findings indicated that male drivers were more skillful in vehicle control than female drivers. Nevertheless, male drivers had less traffic-crash expectation, which degraded their overall crash avoidance effect."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "Considering the traffic safety that more than five million intersection-related crashes occur in American each year, these experimental findings have implications for public safety and health."

For more information on this research see: How does intersection field of view influence driving safety in an emergent situation? Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2018;119():162-175. Accident Analysis and Prevention can be contacted at: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, England. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Accident Analysis and Prevention - www.journals.elsevier.com/accident-analysis-and-prevention/)

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from X.D. Yan, Beijing Jiaotong Univ, Sch Traff & Transportat, MOE Key Lab Urban Transportat Complex Syst Theory, Beijing 100044, People's Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include X.R. Zhang and Q.W. Xue.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2018.07.015. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Keywords for this news article include: Beijing, People's Republic of China, Asia, Risk Management, Beijing Jiaotong University.