Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2023, 25(4):F78-F95 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2023.070

Accident Response Analysis of Six Different Types of Distracted Driving

Alireza Ansariyar ORCID...*, Abolfazl Taherpour ORCID..., Parisa Masoumi ORCID..., Mansoureh Jeihani ORCID...
Department of Transportation and Urban Infrastructure Systems (TUIS), Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, USA

The study analysed the driving performance and visual impairment of 92 participants under six different distraction scenarios. Using a car simulator and by simulating two real-world roads, a variety of data was collected, including driver behavior and vehicle-related data. According to a statistical analysis conducted during and before the distraction on road 1, females significantly increased speed more than males when using a hand-held call (=scenario #3), hands-free call (=scenario #4), text (=scenario #6), and voice command text (=scenario #7). The Kruskal-Wallis H test was performed on gender, age, vehicle speed, throttle, and offset from the center of the road subcategories, while selecting the more correlated variable with each type of distraction. Finally, the generalized linear regression model was used to provide a significant relationship between the frequency of distraction and highly correlated independent variables.

Keywords: distracted driving, driving simulator, safety, statistical analysis, the Kruskal-Wallis H test, the error values
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This study was supported by the Urban Mobility and Equity Center, a Tier 1 University Transportation Center of the U.S. Department of Transportation University Transportation Centers Program at Morgan State University.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Received: April 9, 2023; Accepted: September 11, 2023; Prepublished online: September 11, 2023; Published: October 24, 2023  Show citation

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Ansariyar, A., Taherpour, A., Masoumi, P., & Jeihani, M. (2023). Accident Response Analysis of Six Different Types of Distracted Driving. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 25(4), F78-95. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2023.070
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