Creating Pedestrian Crash Scenarios in a Driving Simulator Environment

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 16, Issue , 2015, Pages S12-S17

  Chrysler, Susan T ^a   Ahmad, Omar ^b   Schwarz, Chris W ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

driving simulation; pedestrian crash avoidance and mitigation systems; pedestrian crash patterns; test methods

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CAR DRIVING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; INJURIES; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; WALKING;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ATTENTION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; UNITED STATES; WALKING;

EID: 84930177009     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2015.1015001     Document Type: Article

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