Intercepting a moving traffic gap while avoiding collision with lead and trail vehicles: Gap-related and boundary-related influences on drivers' speed regulations during approach to an intersection

Human Movement Science

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1500-1516

  Louveton, Nicolas ^a,b   Montagne, Gilles ^a   Berthelon, Catherine ^b   Bootsma, Reinoud J ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GUSTAVE EIFFEL   (France)

Author keywords

Collision avoidance; Driving; Gap interception; Intersection crossing; Perception action

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DRIVING ABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; RURAL AREA; SIMULATOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY; VELOCITY;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; AWARENESS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870235151     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: 18727646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2012.07.010     Document Type: Article

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