THE EFFECT OF USING IN-VEHICLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM ON BUS DRIVERS' PERFORMANCE IN CAR-FOLLOWING TASKS.

Author(s)
Chen, W.H. Lin, T.W. Su, J.M. Lee, S.W. & Hwang, S.L.
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Abstract

Bus driver safety must be emphasized as part of government public transportation policy. Bus drivers may use some in-vehicle communication systems while driving. This study explores the effects of using hand-free cell phones and hand-held wireless communication devices while driving from an ergonomics viewpoint. Both types of devices, according to experimental results using a bus driving simulator, increased drivers' response time to sudden events (i.e., the lead vehicle breaking unexpectedly), especially when those events occurred immediately after the driver finished the communication task. For the covering abstract see ITRD E134653.

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C 45451 (In: C 40997 CD-ROM) /83 /91 / ITRD E136390
Source

In: Proceedings of the 13th World Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) and Services, London, United Kingdom, 8-12 October 2006, 8 p., 3 ref.

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