The Effects of Attention Allocation while Driving for Preventing Traffic Accident Related to Pedestrians

Abstract

The effects of attention allocation and multiple factors (attention allocation with obstruction of view) on drivers' visual and driving behaviour while driving were investigated by using a driving simulator to gain knowledge about characteristics of driving scenes in which traffic accidents related pedestrians may happen frequently. Results showed that there was a possibility that attention allocation led to delayed recognition of a pedestrian resulting in decreased time to the pedestrian and increases in variations in braking response time. Moreover multiple factors induced decreased gazing time of a pedestrian or increases in missing of a pedestrian.