Abstract
To reduce the number of road accident victims the European Commission has encouraged the European member states to implement a series of actions in this field. These actions include the development of intelligent and integrated safety systems as well as educational and training initiatives. Educational initiatives include the training of the drivers to improve their ability and sense of responsibility. In addition to the direct use of the vehicle, the training includes the recognition of the traffic signs. Since the recognition may be influenced by both the position of the signal and the weather conditions, the authors have studied the possibility of evaluate the drivers' perception of road signs by means of a virtual environment tool able to perform different operative conditions. A series of tests was conducted to evaluate the visualization tool created and its ability to replace other recognition tests. This paper reports first tests results.
Highlights
In 1997 the European Community created the “Second programme of action” plan with the objective of reduce the number of road accident victims of the 40% within 2010
The two environments realized are characterized by the presence of the following traffic signals: The test was conducted using 20 people between 16 and 68 years old
The test was preceded by a brief explanation of the simulation and the type of traffic signals that users had to identify
Summary
In 1997 the European Community created the “Second programme of action” plan with the objective of reduce the number of road accident victims of the 40% within 2010. In 2001, the target was moved to 50% as explained in the “White book on Transports European policy for 2010: Time to Decide” plan [1] This last plan estimates about 45 billions of euro per year the cost to sustain road accidents in Europe and multiplies it by four including psychological damages to people and others indirect road accidents. Continuing along this path, in 2002, the European Commission formed the eSafety working group to encourage the development and use of intelligent and integrated safety systems in vehicles. An important consideration that can be deducted from analysis of accidents is that over 93 per cent of them resulted from human error
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