Advanced Human Factors in Traffic Crashes and Analysis of Drivers’ Responses

Attendees will receive a copy of Drivers’ Responses in Emergency Situations. 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