Analysis of Naturalistic Driving Study Data: Roadway Departures on Rural Two-Lane Curves (2014) / Chapter Skim
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1Project Objectives Rural curves are known to pose a significant safety problem, but the interaction between the driver and roadway environment is not well understood. Thus, the objective of this research was to assess the relationship between driver behavior and characteristics, roadway factors, environmental factors, and the likelihood of roadway departures on rural two-lane curves.
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2Roadway, environmental, and operational characteristics were extracted as described in Chapter 4. Site visits were made to the VTTI secure data enclave to reduce driver glance location and distraction for each trace.
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3 provides insight not only into how characteristics of the roadway, driver, and environment potentially influence driving behavior, but also into areas that can lead to roadway departures. Knowing how much drivers normally deviate in their lane, as well as how they choose their speed, could potentially have implications on policy or design.
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4The model for right-side encroachments indicates that the probability increases as drivers spend less time glancing at the forward roadway. The results also indicate that a right-side lane departure is 6.8 times more likely on the inside of a curve compared with the outside of the curve.
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5 behavior. For example, drivers on a rural two-lane roadway tend to have larger lane deviation from the centerline when there is an oncoming vehicle.
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