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The “field of safe travel” revisited: interpreting driving behaviour performance through a holistic approach.
- Source :
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Transport Reviews . Nov2017, Vol. 37 Issue 6, p695-714. 20p. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- The present paper proposes a conceptual framework for the driver’s visual–spatial perceptual processes. Based on a theoretical analysis of driving proposed by Gibson and Crooks [(1938). A theoretical field-analysis of automobile-driving.The American Journal of Psychology,51, 453–471. doi:10.2307/1416145], the developed field of safe travel (FoST) framework suggests that at any moment the driver constructs a “field” by integrating two perceptual entities: (i) the possible available spatial fields for locomotion and (ii) the driver’s mental image of ego-vehicle outer-line and motion dynamics. This framework is used to reinterpret in a unified way a number of disparate research findings reported in the literature concerning specific driving sub-tasks (e.g. lane keeping and car following). It is argued that the FoST framework may be used to predict drivers’ behaviour in various traffic/situation environments based on their prioritisation between the above two perceptual entities. Implications of the proposed framework at a theoretical and practical level, in view of the future of driving with multiple levels of automation, are also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *AUTOMOBILE driving
*TRAFFIC engineering
*AUTOMATION
*TRANSPORTATION
*OVERTAKING
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01441647
- Volume :
- 37
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Transport Reviews
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 125437328
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01441647.2017.1289992