![]() ![]() ![]() James Vavas, an agent with Nationwide Insurance, brought the simulator to the school and had students get behind a fake wheel to test their driving skills on a simulated country road. ![]() The students learned a lesson about the importance of paying attention behind the wheel. Still another hit a stop sign and lost control of the wheel. Another teen struck and killed a deer on a country road. On the simulator, one student driver collided, head-on, into another car. They took place on a simulator that had been set up in a classroom at the school at 1601 80th St. Feasibility tests on simple networks are presented and the results show the feasibility of making safety evaluations for different traffic scenarios by introducing driver errors.BENSONHURST - No one was injured in any of the car accidents that took place at New Utrecht High School on the morning of June 4. The paper applies a specific family of new simple and reproducible conflict indicators and provides the information necessary to develop new algorithms and simulation methodologies which, introducing human error in traffic simulation, may revolutionize the way traffic microsimulation can be used to establish a traffic safety for different scenarios. Moreover, the methodology presented in the paper allows researchers to develop new conflict indicators that overcome many limitations of traditional traffic safety conflict indicators which, unfortunately, do not consider: the types of vehicle that are involved in a conflict, roadside obstacles or barriers, vehicles which are travelling on non-conflicting trajectories and the severity of a potential resulting crash. The severity of resulting crashes can, then, be evaluated in terms of accurate crash dynamic variables. The proposed approach, by introducing potential driver errors, specifically allows consideration of the potential conflicts with road side barriers and obstacles and between vehicles that are moving on trajectories (close in space) that do not intersect. This paper presents a methodology that could support researchers and engineers in the important and original issue of the simulation of crashes and the evaluation of consequences on existing microsimulation packages. ![]()
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