The influence of combined alignments on lateral acceleration on mountainous freeways: A driving simulator study

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 76, Issue , 2015, Pages 110-117

  Wang, Xuesong ^a,b   Wang, Ting ^a,b   Tarko, Andrew ^c   Tremont, Paul J ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Combined alignment; Driving simulator; Geometric design; Lateral acceleration; Mountainous freeway

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; AUTOMOBILE SIMULATORS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DESIGN; LINEAR REGRESSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATORS;

DRIVING SIMULATOR; DRIVING SIMULATOR STUDY; GEOMETRIC DESIGN; LATERAL ACCELERATION; MOUNTAINOUS FREEWAY; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; VERTICAL ALIGNMENT;

ALIGNMENT;

ACCELERATION; CAR DRIVING; CHINA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH; SAFETY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACCELERATION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CHINA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH; SAFETY;

EID: 84921672435     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2015.01.003     Document Type: Article

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