Telematics Technology Research Articles

An In-Depth Analysis of the Mobile Application Rescuennect Leveraging Telematics Technology for Roadside Assistance and Emergency Response Solutions

An In-Depth Analysis of the Mobile Application Rescuennect Leveraging Telematics Technology for Roadside Assistance and Emergency Response Solutions

Managing the road safety risks of last mile deliveries: Do telematics have a role to play?

Objective The research aimed to understand the impact of telematics in reducing traffic violations and crashes among drivers working in parcel delivery and the perceived utility, effectiveness, and acceptability of telematics among drivers using them. The objective was to carry out an online survey among drivers who have telematics versus drivers who do not and compare their behaviors in terms of risks and violations controlling for key demographics an exposure. Methods An online anonymous survey was conducted of 780 home delivery drivers of which 430 used telematics in 2022. The survey was conducted by a fieldwork company and participants were compensated for their time. Univariate and multivariate analysis was conducted on the data. Results Telematics users did not report less crashes than drivers who did not use telematics. Most drivers, irrespective of telematics use agreed that the time pressure of delivery work increased speed limit violations and unsafe or hazardous parking. Multivariate analysis indicated that damage collisions for all drivers were associated with factors such as, driving medium to large vans, hazardous behavior related to parking, and having penalties for violations, especially related to speed. Delivery drivers, while generally facing pressure to speed and take risks to meet delivery schedules, did perceive telematics as a tool for safety enhancement and information dissemination, as well as for the management of performance. Non-telematics users viewed it with skepticism. Conclusions Telematics alone may not ensure the safety of last-mile deliveries and could potentially increase the pressure of deliveries. This research underscores the need for a holistic approach to road safety in the home delivery sector, combining telematics technology with a proactive safety culture.

The clash between physical and digital realm: hybrid movement training during the pandemic

This article is based on ethnographic research conducted in one of the physical training institutions that offer the Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies (LBMS) certification program in 2021. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, the training was held in a hybrid format in which some participants were in the studio while others were attending remotely via Zoom. Zoom-mediated movement training for long hours revealed how the intervention of telematic technologies challenged practitioners’ sensorial experience and sense-making process. Moreover, bringing co-located and remote participants’ experiences together in the hybrid setting disclosed different modes of interaction dynamics in the studio and online. Overall, participants described their hybrid experience as a clash. In the article, starting from unfolding those clashes from the enactive perspective, I discuss how remote intercorporeality through an audio–video streaming system, Zoom, challenges participants’ sensorial experience and how remote interaction affects the shared sense-making process in the hybrid format setting.

Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) Based Security System in Realizing Electronic Government in Makassar City

The current trend of using technology in public organizations must be addressed. The electronic government initiative in Indonesia was introduced through Presidential Instruction Number 6 of 2001 on April 24, 2001, concerning Telematics (Telecommunication, Media, and Informatics), which states that government officials must use telematics technology to support good governance and speed up the democratic process. This research was conducted in Makassar City. The number of people with vehicles in Makassar City, as well as staff employees or CCTV operators who work in 3 (agencies), namely the Communication and Information Service, the Transportation Service and the Makassar Big City Resort Police are huge, but due to the efficiency of time and energy, the author took The sample used non-probability sampling with an accidental sampling technique for people with the number of vehicles in Makassar City and with a purposive sampling technique for employee staff and CCTV operators from the three agencies so that 139 Respondents were obtained, where the author then distributed questionnaires to respondents directly. The research results state that the Informational Disposition states that the Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) based security system in Makassar City has fulfilled the first quadrant category of the e-government initiative framework by Nour et al (2008), namely informational disposition. Transactional disposition states that respondents agree that the Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)-based security system in Makassar City meets the second quadrant category of the e-government initiative framework by Nour et al. (2008), namely transactional disposition. The consultation disposition states that the Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)-based security system in Makassar City has fulfilled the third quadrant category of the e-government initiative framework by Nour et al. (2008), namely the consultation disposition. The participatory disposition states that respondents strongly agree that there is equity and that there is democratic Responsiveness, Public Accountability, efficiency/economy, and effectiveness/ quality of service in the Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) based security system in Makassar City. Therefore, the Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) based security system in Makassar City has fulfilled the fourth quadrant category of the e-government initiative framework by Nour et al. (2008), namely a participatory disposition.

Bibliometric review of telematics-based automobile insurance: Mapping the landscape of research and knowledge

Telematics technology and its implementation in auto insurance have received great interest due to their potential to transform the insurance sector and promote safer driving practices. By implementing telematics technology, insurers may tailor insurance premiums to individual drivers, taking into account their real driving habits and performance, ultimately leading to improved road safety, cost savings, and an empowered driving community. The current study, through bibliometric analysis, carefully identifies and evaluates the existing body of scholarly literature on this subject for the last 21 years, including journal articles, conference papers, and related publications. The analysis uncovers key research studies, influential authors, top publication outlets, top countries with collaborations, and prolific research fields, providing useful insights into the evolution and growth of telematics-based insurance research. Furthermore, thematic mapping, cluster analysis, and critical analysis of top recent studies aided in identifying key research clusters and themes, as well as potential gaps and areas for further exploration, guiding future researchers and policymakers in advancing this transformative technology.

Personalized driving safety: Using telematics to reduce risky driving behavior among young drivers

Introduction: The role of real-time data capture (via telematics technology) is gathering prominence as a strategy to provide feedback to young drivers about important road safety issues. Method: A naturalistic driving study was undertaken to determine whether providing personalized feedback (via a smartphone app) to young provisional drivers aged 17–20 years living in metropolitan and regional Western Australia (WA) reduced their risky driving behavior compared to a control group who did not receive feedback. Speeding over the posted speed limit, harsh decelerations (braking), harsh accelerations and overall driving performance, were recorded continuously using the smartphone app during the 11-week study. Four separate Generalised Estimating Equations (GEE) linear regression models were undertaken after accounting for relevant confounders including driving exposure to determine the difference between the intervention and control group for the 4 driving outcomes obtained from the smartphone app. Results: The study found that there was no significant change in overall driving scores between the intervention and control groups (p = 0.35). However, the overall driving score significantly improved by 0.19 points for young provisional drivers who lived in regional areas compared to those in the metropolitan area (p = 0.05) after adjusting for potential confounders. There was also no significant change in harsh braking scores (p = 0.46) and harsh acceleration scores between the intervention and control groups (p = 0.26) However, harsh acceleration scores improved by 0.37 points for females compared to males (p = 0.04). Lastly, there was no significant change in speed scores between the control and intervention groups (p = 0.72). However, the speed scores of participants who lived in regional WA improved by 0.22 points compared to those in the metropolitan area (p = 0.02). Furthermore, for every 1,000 km travelled, speed scores worsened by −0.08 points (p < 0.01) regardless of group. Conclusions: The study did not find any statistical difference in the driving outcomes examined; however the treatment effects for feedback were consistently in the expected positive direction. Young drivers in regional WA also improved their speeding scores and overall driving performance scores compared to young drivers in the metropolitan area. Females, also significantly improved their harsh deceleration scores compared to males, regardless of group allocation. These results highlight the use of smartphone telematics as an opportunity to not only enhance the safety of provisional young drivers but also provide data-informed decision making and policy development.

Implementation of innovative information technologies in the insurance market in Russia: telematics in auto insurance

To consider the main stages and problems of the introduction of telematics in the insurance industry, to identify the importance and prospects for the development of telematics in motor insurance in Russia.Tasks. To investigate telematics models in auto insurance; to identify problems affecting the introduction of telematics in the insurance business; to analyze the state of the car insurance market in Russia and the experience of foreign countries in the introduction of telematics; to analyze the attitude of policyholders to telematics in auto insurance.The study was conducted using general scientific and private scientific methods, a formal–logical approach, as well as a survey of policyholders.Results. In Russia, the use of insurance telematics technologies is at an early stage. Insurers need to be prepared to work with huge amounts of information, have specialized software and a powerful back office. All this requires significant investment in development and operation. The state of the auto insurance market and the experience of foreign countries in the implementation of telematics are analyzed. The necessity of using insurance telematics as a new level of cooperation with clients is proved based on an in–depth analysis of scientific works, a survey of insurers and the market situation.Conclusions. It has been established that telematic devices make it possible to determine the cost of an insurance policy, reduce the losses of an insurance company by creating personal insurance products, increase the level of service and, in general, reduce cases of insurance fraud more accurately.

Telemedicine Technologies Selection for the Posthospital Patient Care Process after Total Hip Arthroplasty.

For many years, the importance of using telematic technologies in medicine has been growing, especially in the period of the coronavirus pandemic, when direct contact and supervision of medical personnel over the patient is difficult. The existing possibilities of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) are not fully used. The aim of the study is to identify the telemedicine technologies that can be used in future implementation projects of the posthospital patient care process after total hip arthroplasty (THA). The literature search is reported according to PRISMA 2020. The search strategy included databases and gray literature. In total, 28 articles (EMBASE, PubMed, PEDro) and 24 records from gray literature (Google Search and Technology presentations) were included in the research. This multi-source study analyzes the possibilities of using different technologies useful in the patient care process. The conducted research resulted in defining visual and wearable types of telemedicine technologies for the original posthospital patient care process after THA. As the needs of stakeholders in the posthospital patient care process after THA differ, the awareness of appropriate technologies selection, information flow, and its management importance are prerequisites for effective posthospital patient care with the use of telemedicine technologies.Protocol RegistrationPROSPERO 2022 #CRD42022320491

Minnesota Distance-Based Fee Project: Charting a Path Forward

This paper summarizes an innovative demonstration by the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) of the distance-based fee (DBF) concept. Fees based on actual road usage, as opposed to fuel consumption, have been explored by numerous states as an alternative transportation revenue source to the motor fuel tax. These approaches rely on the collection of road usage data, and most states have pilot tested approaches reliant on aftermarket devices installed within individually owned vehicles. Private-sector vendors are responsible for managing data collection, fee assessment, and account management. In the near term, the most feasible and scalable option for DBF deployment may be to leverage embedded telematics technologies under a fleet-based reporting and collection approach. MnDOT worked with two shared mobility (SM) providers offering carsharing services in the Minneapolis–St. Paul region. A connected and automated vehicle (C/AV) partner was also included to demonstrate the collection of road usage information from emerging C/AV technologies. The demonstration successfully collected the required information for DBF assessment from the SM and C/AV providers including information necessary to support audits by the Minnesota Department of Revenue. The demonstration showed that the information necessary for assessing and collecting DBF could be obtained from embedded telematics systems and reported by a fleet provider on behalf of all users in that fleet. Although the specific architecture demonstrated would probably need significant adaption for scaling to a national system, it nonetheless provides insights that support development of a broader ecosystem of usage-based charging strategies.

Telematic Sublime: anti-racist Zoom play in the time of COVID-19

ABSTRACT In Search of the Sublime (The Sublime) is a telematic play, written and directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni. Responding to the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Sublime was staged on the videoconferencing platform Zoom. While Zoom presented Vaeni with ethical issues and technical challenges, ultimately the platform allowed for creative approaches to the hybrid live-virtual performance. In inventive ways, Vaeni incorporated anti-racist production practices and utilized Zoom’s functions and affordances to engage the audience. In The Sublime, telematic technologies challenged the static roles of performers and viewers, producing the cast as spectators and the audience as co-creators of the piece.

МЕТОД ОЦЕНКИ НАЛИЧИЯ ТЕХНИЧЕСКОЙ ВОЗМОЖНОСТИ У ВОДИТЕЛЯ ТРАНСПОРТНОГО СРЕДСТВА ИЗБЕЖАТЬ ДТП С ПРИМЕНЕНИЕМ СОВРЕМЕННЫХ ИНФОРМАЦИОННЫХ И ТЕЛЕМАТИЧЕСКИХ ТЕХНОЛОГИЙ

Promising areas of research of the subsystem for detecting incidents of the intelligent transport system (ITS) have been identified. A method for assessing the technical capability of a vehicle driv-er to avoid an accident using modern information and telematics technologies is presented.

Unmanned aerial vehicles as element of road traffic safety monitoring

Unmanned aerial vehicles initially designed to satisfy the needs of military organizations have significantly expanded their functional purpose during the past decades and are now used by many government institutions and bodies addressing a wide range of organizational, strategic and prognostic issues. Studying the equipment capability of government institutions participating in road traffic safety facilities resulted in a conclusion that unmanned aerial vehicles are intensively used when addressing organizational, administrative, operative, analytical, preventive and tactical-technical issues. Payload elements of modern aerial vehicles enable dealing with planning, construction and operation of motor ways, situational and prediction modeling of traffic flows in order to ensure population mobility, monitoring of climatic conditions and environmental situation, and help addressing the issues of crime prevention, promoting detection and investigation of road safety offenses. Unmanned aerial vehicles are an element of an intellectual transport system comprising modern informational, communication and telematic technologies. These aerial vehicles provide for automated search, recording and reception of information for automated processing, which allows for efficient monitoring of road transport system and groups of vehicles in the conditions of certain spatial and time parameters in order to ensure transport mobility of population and road safety in general.

Telematics Insurance: Legal Concerns and Challenges in the EU Insurance Market

This paper assess the legal challenges arising from the use of telematics technology in the insurance sector. Telematics technology allows insurers to obtain information on location, kilometres travelled and other driving patterns of an individual policyholder. Ultimately, this will allow car insurers to use risk factors related to an individual policyholder to determine the premium for motor vehicle liability insurance. For all its possible benefits, telematics insurance poses significant privacy and data protection risks, revolving around two questions: first, whether insurers can collect certain data on driver’s habits and behaviour; second, how this data is used (and processed) by the insurers. The paper will rely on a legal analysis of the legislative texts on which data protection and privacy are based in Europe and will be supported by a review of the relevant academic literature, research reports and other policy documents, industry publications and media materials. Part One will introduce telematics insurance focusing on the insurance sector in the European Union. Part Two addresses in more detail the main legal challenges posed by telematics insurance, data protection and privacy. Part Three points out other challenges facing telematics insurance, including data ownership and indirect discrimination. In conclusion, this paper looks ahead to possible insurance sector responses and policy goals.

THE LEGAL STRATEGY OF TREATING TELEMATICS CRIMES IN THE FIELD OF ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS IN GLOBAL TRADE

Economic globalization that is sweeping the world today began with the development of transportation facilities and cross-border trade. One of the facilities in the internet world to support economic activity is Electronic Transactions. In Indonesia, problems that arise due to the use of transaction media through telematics technology continue without being followed by the existence of laws that regulate it (cyber law). This study aims to determine legal policies against crime in electronic transaction activities in various sources of positive criminal law in Indonesia and to determine strategies for overcoming telematics crimes in the field of electronic transactions in global trade. This research is a normative legal research that is finding a rule of law, legal principles, and legal doctrines in order to answer the legal issues faced. The results of this study explain the legal policy against crime in electronic transaction activities in various sources of positive criminal law in Indonesia carried out in two stages, namely the Applicative Stage and the Formulation Stage and explain the Legal Strategy for Combating Telematics Crime in the Field of Electronic Transactions in Global Trade which is carried out through the Penalty Policy and non-penal policy.

Information system for remote monitoring the vehicle operational efficiency

The article describes the information system for remote monitoring and control of vehicle technical condition and motion modes with the use of modern telematics technologies. There are 17 morphological features in the system, which determine the level of telematic support of the main functional elements of the system to obtain information about vehicle technical condition and motion modes in the appropriate infrastructural conditions. The information model of the system for monitoring of parameters of vehicle technical condition, motion modes and infrastructural characteristics was built. This model is implemented in the information and software complex for remote monitoring of vehicle operational efficiency. The results of experimental studies of freight vehicle operational efficiency on a given route with use of the developed information and software complex are presented. The results show significant influence of the vehicle technical speed and average coolant temperature of its engine on operational efficiency indicators such as fuel consumption, carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter emissions on the route characterized by different road height profiles.

New Telematic Technologies for Remote Creation, Rehearsal and Performance of Choreographic Work

A Goldsmiths based AHRC funded project within the ‘Tackling the Impact of COVID-19’ UKRI call. In collaboration with LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore, Akram Khan Dance Company, and Target3D. In this experimental test session recorded in July 2020, two dancers, one in London, and one in Singapore, are dancing together, but virtually, each wearing an inertial sensor motion capture system. Live and pre-captured dance data was streamed from a dancer in a similar studio space in LASALLE college in Singapore, some 6700 miles away, with barely noticeable delay or latency. Although with occasional technical glitches, including magnetic interference with the suit, this raw footage operates as proof of concept, and a suggestion of what is to come in the next iteration of our research. We position this research practice within a historical and theoretical problematic of networked or ‘distributed performance’ and of telepresence, telematics, and virtuality in dance practice. It is not about recreating the live experience – of ‘being there’ – but rather finding forms of meaningful connection, engaged interest and attention in a digital medium which is decisively and qualitatively different.

Nudging Drivers to Safety: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Driving is an integral component of many operational systems, and any small improvement in driving quality can have a significant effect on accidents, traffic, pollution, and the economy in general. However, making improvements is challenging given the complexity and multidimensionality of driving as a task. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of nudging to improve driving performance. In particular, we leverage a smartphone application launched by our industry partners to send three types of nudges through notifications to drivers, indicating how they performed on the current trip with respect to their personal best, personal average, and latest driving performance. We measure the resulting driving performance using telematics technology (i.e., real-time sensor data from an accelerometer, Global Positioning System (GPS), and gyroscope in a mobile device). Compared with the “no-nudge” control group, we find that personal best and personal average nudges improve driving performance by approximately 18% standard deviations of the performance scores calculated by the application. In addition, these nudges improve interaccident times (by nearly 1.8 years) and driving performance consistency, as measured by the standard deviation of the performance score. Noting that driving abilities and feedback seeking may vary across individuals, we adopt a generalized random forest approach, which shows that high-performing drivers who are not frequent feedback seekers benefit the most from personal best nudges, whereas low-performing drivers who are also frequent feedback seekers benefit the most from the personal average nudges. Finally, we investigate the potential mechanism behind the results by conducting an online experiment in a nondriving context. The experiment shows that the performance improvements are directly driven by the changes in participants’ effort in response to different nudges and that our key findings are robust in alternative (nondriving) settings. Our analysis further shows that nudges are effective when the variability in reference points is low, which explains why the personal best and personal average nudges are effective, whereas the last score nudge is not. This paper was accepted by Vishal Gaur, operations management.

Process of Posthospital Care Involving Telemedicine Solutions for Patients after Total Hip Arthroplasty.

The importance of telemedicine technologies around the world has been growing for many years, and it turned out to be a particularly important issue for conducting some medical procedures during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. It is necessary to create interdisciplinary teams to design and implement improved procedures using telemedicine tools. The aim of the article is to develop original, improved posthospital patient care process after total hip arthroplasty (THA) with the use of telemedicine technologies. In the study, a literature review and empirical research were used. The conducted research resulted in the designing an original posthospital patient care process after THA that uses telematics technologies. Due to the use of analyzed telemedicine technologies, the designed patient care process brings a possibility to increase the patient′s safety by monitoring life parameters, allowing for regular, remote contact with specialists and to be supervised remotely. All this may contribute to shortening the convalescence time, reducing the risk of complications, as well as reducing treatment costs. The designed model is ready for further clinical research with the participation of medical staff, patients after THA and patient caregivers.

COST-SENSITIVE MULTI-CLASS ADABOOST FOR UNDERSTANDING DRIVING BEHAVIOR BASED ON TELEMATICS

ABSTRACTUsing telematics technology, insurers are able to capture a wide range of data to better decode driver behavior, such as distance traveled and how drivers brake, accelerate, or make turns. Such additional information also helps insurers improve risk assessments for usage-based insurance, a recent industry innovation. In this article, we explore the integration of telematics information into a classification model to determine driver heterogeneity. For motor insurance during a policy year, we typically observe a large proportion of drivers with zero accidents, a lower proportion with exactly one accident, and a far lower proportion with two or more accidents. We here introduce a cost-sensitive multi-class adaptive boosting (AdaBoost) algorithm we call SAMME.C2 to handle such class imbalances. We calibrate the algorithm using empirical data collected from a telematics program in Canada and demonstrate an improved assessment of driving behavior using telematics compared with traditional risk variables. Using suitable performance metrics, we show that our algorithm outperforms other learning models designed to handle class imbalances.

Telematics-Based Traffic Law Enforcement and Network Management System for Connected Vehicles

This article introduces a telematics-based traffic law enforcement and management system (SLEM), which leverages connected vehicle and telematics technologies. The system assigns each driver a real-time score that measures her/his driving performance. Using these driver scores, SLEM then adopts a personalized route guidance strategy that favors high-performing drivers by guiding them to less congested routes at the expense of low-performing drivers who are directed to alternative, slower routes. This routing strategy shifts the network traffic distribution pattern from the undesirable user equilibrium pattern to the system optimal pattern. Hence, SLEM not only incentivizes drivers to improve their driving performance but it also provides a mechanism to manage network congestion. A bilevel mathematical program and an efficient solution methodology were developed to derive SLEM's optimal routing strategy. A set of experiments that was conducted to evaluate the performance of SLEM under different operation scenarios showed that the adoption of SLEM's routing strategy reduced travel time during recurrent congestion situations by about 5%.