Drivers' Situation Awareness and Spacial Travel Understanding

Abstract

What do the drivers who can understand the routes well pay attention to when they are driving cars? If we know this relation, we are able to develop a fine car navigation system that provides effective information for drivers. This paper presents the experimental results of the relation between drivers' situation awareness and their spatial travel understanding. In the experiment, we used SAGAT to measure the drivers' situation awareness and we conducted route recall test to measure the drivers' spatial travel understanding. The qualitative analysis of these measurements reveals effective expression of the car navigation system.