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Title:

Headway Time Errors, Safe Driving Skill, and Experience: An Initial Validation of the Simulated Driving Assessment

Accession Number:

01519630

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

High novice teen crash rates highlight the need for a validated, reproducible method to assess safe driving skill before independent licensure, the aim of the new Simulated Driving Assessment (SDA). In order to validate the SDA in its ability to differentiate drivers according to experience and driving skill, the authors examined headway time errors as one key safety metric. This two group comparison study included an inexperienced group (n=21): 16-17 year olds with 90 days or fewer of provisional licensure and an experienced group (n=17): 25-50 year olds with at least 5 years of Pennsylvania licensure, >100 miles driven per week and no self-reported crashes. The SDA involved a 35-40 minute drive with scenarios representing common crash configurations and was delivered on a fixed based high fidelity simulator. Simulator-derived data were analyzed from the seven potential rear-end scenarios included in the SDA. A second source of data came from professional driving evaluator ratings across eight domains of driving based on video review. For this paper, a cut-off score for the total domain score was created to categorize participants as skilled/less skilled. Skill categorization was compared with police-reported driving records to obtain an indication of validation. A multivariable linear regression model revealed that, independently, both driving skill and experience significantly predicted the simulator-derived total headway time errors across the seven potential rear-end collision scenarios (F(2,35)=13.1; skilled p<0.01; experienced p<0.01). These results provide early support for the SDA as stimulus which can produce driving performance that differentiates drivers according to experience and skill.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB30 Operator Education and Regulation. Alternate title: Headway Time Errors, Safe Driving Skill, and Experience: Initial Validation of Simulated Driving Assessment

Monograph Accession #:

01503729

Report/Paper Numbers:

14-4867

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Winston, Flaura Koplin
McDonald, Catherine Claire
Kandadai, Venk
Loeb, Helen
Tanenbaum, Jason Bryant
Seacrist, Thomas
Scarfone, Steven R
Winston, Zachary

Pagination:

15p

Publication Date:

2014

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC
Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-4867

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 27 2014 3:42PM