A Robotic Vehicle Platform for Education and Outreach We propose to develop a small robotic vehicle based on a Raspberry Pi architecture that can be used for education and outreach in the classroom or at STEM events. Two versions of the vehicle are plann ...
Augmented Reality for Safer Pedestrian-Vehicle Interactions As sensor technology advances, both inside and outside the vehicle, it is conceivable that the ability to detect pedestrians will be a standard feature of vehicle and roadside infrastructure. In the c ...
Automating the Transportation Design to Simulator Model Process This development is proposed to the United Stated Department of Transportation (USDOT) in the SAFER-SIM program under theme areas of transportation safety affecting vehicular roadway users, enhancing ...
Children’s Use of eHMI Displays to Guide Road-Crossing Decisions Autonomous vehicle (AV) technology is advancing at a rapid pace. One concern is how AVs will communicate their intentions to vulnerable road users such as pedestrians. Past work has focused almost exc ...
Connected Vehicles (CV) Transition and Market Penetration The development of information and communication technologies have facilitated connected vehicle (CV) technologies, in which vehicles communicate with other vehicles (V2V), roadway infrastructures (V2 ...
Distributed Simulation to Support Driving Safety Research Over half of all crashes involve two or more vehicles. While driving simulation provides an effective way to study many crash scenarios in a well-controlled environment, it cannot capture the complex ...
DRIVER’S SAFETY ASSESSMENT IN TWO-LANE RURAL ROADS WORK ZONES Work zones generate several challenges in terms of safety for both workers and drivers. The complex geometry including the presence of temporary signs, channelizing devices, lane changes, lane reduct ...
Driving After Distal Radius Fractures Distal radius fractures are a common orthopaedic injury, and patients with this injury often ask their physicians when they can safely return to driving. There is no current consensus in the literatur ...
Driving Simulators for Virtual Road Safety Audits Road safety audits (RSAs) are becoming more prevalent as a low cost, pro-active approach to designing and maintaining roadways. A typical RSA is performed to explicitly check the safety aspects of a r ...
Effectiveness of In-Vehicle Virtual Traffic Control Devices Traffic Control Devices (TCD) are used to communicate regulatory, warning, and guidance information to roadway users through signs and pavement markings. Research has shown that the ability of drivers ...
Enhancing School Zone and School Bus Safety Traffic crashes involving school-age children are a serious safety concern, as there has been an increase in the number of school-age pedestrians and cyclists injured and killed throughout the years. ...
Examination of driver behavior in response to bicyclist behaviors In order to make roadways safer for bicycles and pedestrians via infrastructure changes or in-vehicle technology warning systems for drivers, it is important to understand how drivers respond to such ...
Exploring the Science of Driving (Education) The Science of Driving project focused on developing a collaborative relationship to develop curriculum units for middle school and high school students to engage them in exciting realworld scenarios. ...
Global Road Safety, Online Course Development This course introduces students to the status, research, and prevention efforts related to global road safety, including fatal and non-fatal injuries. As one of the fastest growing causes of death aro ...
Human-Machine Interfaces to Convey Feedback in Automated Vehicles The next decade will see a rapid increase in the prevalence of partial and conditional vehicle automation, specifically SAE Levels 2 and 3. In these levels of automation, the driver is expected to act ...
Impact of Deflection Angle on Roundabout Driver Behavior Roundabouts have been gaining popularity as an alternative to signalized intersections, due to their potential for more efficient and safe traffic operations. While several state and federally funded ...
Integrating Traffic Control Devices via Augmented Reality Traffic Control Devices (TCD’s) are integral to driver-to-infrastructure (D2I) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) interactions. Yearly, the installation and maintenance of these various TCD’s cos ...
Neural Correlates of Older Driver Performance With rapid advances in modern medicine and technology, human lifespan has increased dramatically, especially in the developed world. This increase has created new challenges to keep the older populati ...
Perception of Time Influences on Driver Speed Selection In the United States, traffic crashes claim the lives of 30,000 people every year and is the leading cause of death for 5-24 year olds. Speed selection is a crucial task for human drivers and is one o ...
Protected Intersection Design for Safer Cycling Cyclist deaths due to traffic crashes have increased in the last year while the number of injuries has decreased. One of the infrastructure designs that have been recommended for this is the protected ...
Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Speed Limit Control Over Network The goal is to optimize variable speed limit control (VSLC) strategies over network to improve both traffic safety and mobility. We propose to use graph-based deep reinforcement learning to improve th ...
Risk Awareness and Perception Training using Virtual Reality The potential of the VR platform will be investigated, by executing the scenarios from the (Pradhan et al, 2005) and compare the VR drivers’ hazard anticipation behavior to the hazard anticipation b ...
The Gap Effect in Conditionally Automated Driving Attentional disengagement and reengagement is critical in automated driving, where drivers may need to move attention to and from the dynamic driving task. This study investigates the application of t ...
The Influence of Unmanned Aerial Systems on Driving Performance Safety across all facets of the transportation system remains a top priority of the U.S. Department of Transportation due, in part, to the high number of traffic fatalities and injuries occurring eac ...
To Trust or Not to Trust? A Simulation-based Experimental Paradigm Human error has been cited as a causal factor in 94 percent of vehicle crashes (Singh 2015). Automated vehicle technology promises to help decrease that share by at least partial takeover of vehicle c ...
University of Iowa SAE Baja California Nationals Event The University of Iowa’s SAE Baja Team is a club out of the Mechanical Engineering Department who every year design, build, test, and ultimately race a mini baja car at events across the nation, aga ...
Using Driver State Detection in Automated Driving The next several years will see a large increase in automated vehicle capabilities. High levels of automation will require bi-directional transfers of control between the driver and vehicle. These con ...
Using Naturalistic Driving Data to Develop Simulator Scenarios A variety of techniques have been utilized to understand driver behavior as a means toward identifying the factors that contribute to crashes and driver safety. Such approaches include driving simulat ...
