Road space assessment by driver's attention-seeking behavior in low-speed

2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22760402
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Civil engineering project/Traffic engineering
• Research Institution: Toyota Transportation Research Institute
• Principal Investigator: MIMURA Yasuhiro 公益財団法人豊田都市交通研究所, 主任研究員 (20450877)
• Project Period (FY): 2010 – 2011
• Keywords: 交通安全 / 注意喚起 / 運転挙動 / 低速領域

Research Abstract

Recently, there are so many road accidents in low speed areas, such as on community streets, in Japan. This study aimed to evaluate of road space by driver's attention seeking behaviors in low speed areas. I focused on driver's driving behavior and attention points as standards of judgment with regard to attention-seeking. First, it was grasped in driving behavior, such as brake etc, and attention point in various road spaces. Next, I construct some models to calculate the quantity of attention-seeking by to analyze relation between drivers's attention-seeking and road space. Finally, I tried to evaluate of the road space by the quantity of attention-seeking by using the models.