Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2024, 26(1):A37-A49 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2024.014

The Impact of the Safe following Distance onto the Traffic Safety

Rafa³ Jurecki ORCID...1, Milo¹ Poliak ORCID...2, *
1 Faculty of Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering, Kielce University of Technology, Kielce, Poland
2 Department of Road and Urban Transport, Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Zilina, Zilina, Slovak Republic

This paper provides an analysis of the values of safety distance between the two moving vehicles, based on the parameters of the behaviour of young drivers. The main objective of this research was to determine the driver's response time for braking manoeuvre (BRT) in car-following situations. The test results were used to verify certain recommendations for the vehicle driving parameters, the principles of driver's performance to increase road traffic safety, etc. The driver's response times, determined during the testing in the simulator, were used to assess the recommended values of the safe following distance under different road conditions and various ways of driver behaviour. In the paper, for different values of BRT a safety distance in emergency traffic situations was determined.

Keywords: simulator, driver testing, safe distance, car-following situation
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This work was supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under the Contract no. APVV-22-0524.

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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: September 23, 2023; Accepted: December 6, 2023; Prepublished online: December 27, 2023; Published: January 8, 2024  Show citation

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