In-vehicle alerting system for older and younger drivers: Does experience count?

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1899, 2004, Pages 64-70

  Maltz, Masha ^a,b   Sun, Hongyan ^c   Wu, Qiong ^c   Mourant, Ronald ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER VISION; GROUND VEHICLES; RELIABILITY;

AUDITORY ALARM; HEADWAY DETECTION AND ALERTING DEVICES (HDAD); TIME HEADWAY (TH); TRAVELER INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVER SIMULATORS;

EID: 15744391437     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1899-08     Document Type: Conference Paper

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