Driver strategies in car-following situations
SAAD
Type de document
COMMUNICATION AVEC ACTES INTERNATIONAL (ACTI)
Langue
anglais
Auteur
SAAD
Résumé / Abstract
Our research is aimed at making a contribution to the analysis of cognitive aspects of driver behaviour in car-following situations. It represents an in-depth qualitative investigation into driver behaviour in the context of the complex interaction at work in real situations. The methodology used consists of observing driver behaviour from within a specially equipped vehicle during an actual joumey. To complement this observation, in-depth interviews were conducted with the subject after the drive. Our paper focuses mainly on the results of an analysis of these interviews. This analysis highlighted the diversity of cues that drivers take into account to gauge the critical nature of the margins with the preceding vehicle (speed, instability of the trafflc situation, manoeuvres carried out by the driver or by the other drivers, ... ), as weil as the temporal aspect and the anticipation mechanisms involved in the control of these margins.
Editeur
Elsevier
