Advanced Human Factors in Traffic Crashes and Analysis of Drivers’ Responses
September 9 - September 13
In many crash reconstruction cases, the key questions to be answered involve some aspect of human behavior: reaction times (and delays), perception, visibility, impairment and so on. Advanced Analysis of Driver’s Responses focuses on obtaining a better understanding of what needs to be done to assess the human role in the crash sequence.
- Course Content
- Perception-Response Time
- Response to Slow moving or Stopped Vehicles on Multilane High Speed Roads
- Nighttime recognition
- Drivers’ decision making
- Research, IDRR/Response
- Gap acceptance
- Pedestrian walking speeds
- Acceleration
- Forward and backing acceleration of cars, motorcycles and commercial vehicles
- Drivers’ responses at green and yellow traffic signals
- Deceleration choice, reaction time and probability of stopping
- Rules of Thumb