Using a driving simulator to assess driver compliance at railway level crossings

ATRF 2011 - 34th Australasian Transport Research Forum

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Tey, Li Sian ^a,b   Wallis, Guy ^a   Ferreira, Luis ^a   Hojati, Ahmad Tavassoli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Alternative warning devices; Driver compliance; Driving simulator; Railway level crossing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE SIMULATORS; RAILROADS;

AUDITORY WARNING; DATA COLLECTION; DRIVER COMPLIANCE; DRIVING SIMULATOR; FLASHING LIGHTS; RAILWAY LEVEL CROSSING; TRAINS CROSSING; WARNING DEVICES;

RAILROAD CROSSINGS;

EID: 84916910724     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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