Development of a scripting language that allows reproducible traffic situations and its application to driving behavier study

• Project/Area Number: 24300063
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Intelligent informatics
• Research Institution: National Institute of Informatics
• Principal Investigator: Prendinger Helmut 国立情報学研究所, 大学共同利用機関等の部局等, 教授 (40390596)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
• Budget Amount: ¥17,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,140,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥5,460,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,260,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥8,060,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,860,000)
• Keywords: SML / マルチユーザドライビングシミュレーション / MPML / シナリオ記述言語 / 大規模運転行動研究 / 無人航空機 / スクリプト言語 / 高度道路交通システム

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The goal of the research is to investigate the response to drivers to the traffic phenomenon that cause traffic congestion to surge by distracting them and drastically changing their rate of travel.
We focus on rubbernecking; a phenomenon in which drivers tend to crane their neck in order to get a better view of a nearby car crash. To study interactive driving behaviour of rubbernecking in a multi-driver shared simulated 3-D environment we developed Scenario Markup Language (SML). Our developed framework enables 1) the simulation of multiuser immersive driving; 2) the visualization of surrounding traffic; 3) the specification and creation of reproducible traffic scenarios; and 4) the collection of meaningful driving behavior data. To demonstrate the effectiveniess of our framework, we specified the traffic accident scenario in SML and conducted a study about the rubbernecking phenomenon.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] iCO2: a networked game for collecting large-scale eco-driving behavior data (2014)
  • Author(s): H. Prendinger, J. Oliveira, J. Catarino, K. Puntumapon, M. Madruga, and R. Prada
  • Journal Title: IEEE Internet Computing, Special Issue on Networked Games Volume: １８ Pages: 28-35
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] A cyber physical system simulator for risk free transport studies (2014)
  • Author(s): H. Prendinger, M. Miska, K. Gajananan, and A. Nantes
  • Journal Title: Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering Volume: 29 Pages: 480-495
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Tokyo Virtual Living Lab: Designing smart cities based on the 3D Internet (2013)
  • Author(s): Helmut Prendinger, Kugamoorthy Gajananan, Ahmed Bayoumy Zaki, Ahmed Fares, Reinaert Molenaar, Daniel Urbano, Hans van Lint, and Walid Gomaa.
  • Journal Title: IEEE Internet Computing, Special Issue on Smart Cities Volume: 17 Pages: 30-38
• [Journal Article] An experimental space for conducting controlled driving behavior studies based on a multiuser networked 3D virtual environment and the Scenario Markup Language (2013)
  • Author(s): Kugamoorthy Gajananan, Alfredo Nantes, Marc Miska, Arturo Nakasone, and Helmut Prendinger
  • Journal Title: IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems Volume: 43 Issue: 4 Pages: 345-358
  • DOI: 10.1109/tsmc.2013.2265876
• [Journal Article] Design of an open source traffic and simulation framework (2013)
  • Author(s): Guus Tamminga, Marc Miska, Hans van Lint, Arturo Nakasone, Helmut Prendinger, and Serge Hoogendoorn
  • Journal Title: Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board Volume: 2291 Pages: 44-52