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Audible Warning Devices in Vehicles

Trimble and Purdue University Collaborate to Improve Highway Work Zone Safety (Publication)

Resource Type: News and Other Non-research Articles
ARTBA members Trimble and Purdue University are partnering to develop a slowdown alert service that notifies commercial drivers to help reduce rear-end crashes, particularly in highway work zones. The…More

Influencing Speed Behaviour at Highway Work Zones Using In-car Speed Limits and Warnings (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
Speeding behaviour and driver distraction cause relative unsafety at highway work zones and amongst young male drivers. Adding further safety measures to the infrastructure has adverse effects as driv…More

The Sooner the Better: Drivers’ Reactions to Two-Step Take-Over Requests in Highly Automated Driving (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
Driving behavior after take-over requests (TORs) is one of the most popular subjects in human factors re-search on highly automated driving. Many studies utilized one-step TOR procedures to prompt dri…More

Peripheral Monitoring of Traffic in Conditionally Automated Driving (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
Conditionally automated vehicles (level 3) allow drivers to engage in visual, non-driving related tasks (NDRTs) while the automation is active. System limits require drivers to reengage in the dynamic…More

Test and Evaluate a Bluetooth Based In-Vehicle Message System to Alert Motorists in Work Zones (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
Safe and efficient traffic flow in a work zone is a major concern for transportation agencies. To reduce risky behavior around work zones, we have developed a prototype system to investigate the feasi…More

Don’t Rely on Backup Alarms to Stop Backovers (Publication)

Resource Type: News and Other Non-research Articles
Backing construction vehicles caused 24 construction worker fatalities and 50 more injuries in work zones in the US in 2016. This article discusses how this tragedy can be avoided by the use of intern…More

Evaluation of Mobile Work Zone Alarm Systems (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
Maintenance of highways often involves mobile work zones for various types of low speed moving operations such as striping and sweeping. The speed differential between the moving operation and traffic…More

Assessment of the Effectiveness of Connected Vehicle Weather and Work Zone Warnings in Improving Truck Driver Safety (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
Improving work zone safety remains a prime challenge for the transportation sector in the United States. In particular, the frequency and severity of work zone crashes involving large trucks in rural …More

Investigating the Effectiveness of Using Bluetooth Low-Energy Technology to Trigger In-Vehicle Messages in Work Zones (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
In order to reduce risky behavior around work zones, this project examines the effectiveness of using in-vehicle messages to heighten drivers’ awareness of safety-critical and pertinent work zone in…More

The Effect of In-Vehicle Warning Systems on Speed Compliance in Work Zones (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
The purpose of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of augmented in-vehicle speed warnings on driver behavior in work zones. The influence of three device configurations were examined as th…More

In-Vehicle Work Zone Messages (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
Work zones present an increased risk to drivers and the work crew. To mitigate these risks, this study investigated the potential effects of in-vehicle messages to communicate work zone events to the …More

Using Bluetooth Low Energy Technology to Trigger In-Vehicle Messages at Work Zones (Publication)

Resource Type: Books, Reports, Papers, and Research Articles
In order to reduce risky behaviour around work zones, this project examines the effectiveness of using in-vehicle messages to heighten drivers’ awareness of safety-critical and pertinent work zone i…More

Minnesota Trialing Bluetooth ‘Tags’ to Warn Drivers About Highway Work Zones (Publication)

Resource Type: News and Other Non-research Articles
Researchers at University of Minnesota have developed a system that uses Bluetooth tags to trigger in-vehicle audio warnings when approaching a highway work zone. The system can be easily attached to …More

In-Vehicle Warnings Show Promise for Improving Work Zone Safety (Publication)

Resource Type: News and Other Non-research Articles
This article introduces a new study conducted by University of Minnesota researchers on in-vehicle work zone messages, which is funded by the Minnesota Department of Transportation. The research proc…More

The Drive: Approaching a Work Zone? Your Phone Could Tell You (Publication)

Resource Type: News and Other Non-research Articles
Drivers are so used to seeing static and digital work zone signs that they no longer pay attention to them. Chen-Fu Liao, a senior systems engineer at the University of Minnesota’s Traffic Observato…More
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