The ASSET-Road project is focussing on improving road safety and road traffic by pushing different transportation stakeholders to interact between each other and integrating modern communication and sensing technologies. The vision of the project as Description of Work states is: …”substantially contribute to safe and sustainable transportation by linking road traffic and safety information from all essential system elements. Improving driver awareness and behaviour is a key issue. This will be achieved through an advanced sensor and processing network providing assistance and information for drivers, traffic control agencies and infrastructure operators.” Since the area of what the project is dealing with is large covering theories, practices, technologies, hard- and software and different application areas, this deliverable focuses on a specific road safety issue including road safety parameters and enforcement that has not been deeply investigating during years: Behaviours of heavy vehicles drivers, and how their behaviours are influenced by their level of knowledge. Starting from that, the topic of the research described here is the design of an in-vehicle driver support system, including information provision strategies and HMI. In fact, in the global project vision a crucial aspect are drivers, and a key success factor is analysing their behaviours while driving. This is a starting point to implement innovative strategies and to mitigate risks of crashes and reduce negative impacts on all systems’ components (users first). This is the main objective of Work Package 3, and it could be specified as follows: 1. to investigate driver compliance with road regulations and safe driving practices, in order to assess their knowledge and confidence of traffic regulations and the consequences of hazardous behaviour and rule violations; 2. to fill the gap between current and desired driver knowledge with regards to regulation, using an informative approach 3. to design an interactive and intelligent HMI (LISA) as smart In-Vehicle Information System, which will keep drivers aware about road scenarios, regulations and potentially safety-critical situations, minimizing distraction through an ergonomic-based interface design; 4. to design and process a simulator study using smart ITS prototype devices to observe drivers behaviour and performances during the interaction; 5. to test LISA in a real context in the German test site. This document describes the work done in work package WP3 * tasks 3.3 (Regulation knowledge & awareness study), * task 3.4 (Simulator study — effects on driver behaviour), task 3.5 (Driver support awareness and control) and * task 3.6 (Virtual traffic regulation support system). The objective is to report the design, development and test process that leaded to implementation of the prototype of the In-Vehicle Information System called LISA. The structure of the document reflects the different phases of the process, namely: Section 1: it represents the specification and design phase. It includes the description of the system’s architecture, functionalities, information provision strategies and HMI. This has been the reference for the implementation of the prototype application LISA 1.0. Section 2: it describes the study performed on LISA 1.0 on VTI truck driving simulator. It includes the approach and the tools used to collect feedbacks about the impact (users experience and system’s acceptance) related to the introduction of LISA 1.0 inside a truck cabin, and the results coming from professional drivers. Section 3: it describes the evaluation of LISA 1.0, based on expert analysis (bench tests) and task analysis. The output is a set of re-design issues for LISA 2.0. Section 4: it describes the evolution of LISA prototype towards a real application, working in a co-operative way with the infrastructure. (Author/publisher)
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