To Analyze Reaction Time of Drivers Based on Drivers Characteristics- A Review

Abstract

Traffic related issues and road accidents are two of the major and persistent issues faced in everyday life. Traffic congestion can lead to drivers becoming frustrated and engaging road rage. Mostly these accidents mainly depend upon traffic conditions and driver behaviour. Driver's behaviour is one of the most concerned factor among this which includes aggressive or passive drivers, young inexperience drivers. The perceptual and cognitive factors involved are driver expectancy effect, glare, visibility, driver's dark adaption, road illusions & driver's perception reaction time. The reaction time of driver is the most important factor contributing to the road accidents. The reaction time depends upon several factors such as driver characteristics, vehicle characteristics, roadway characteristics, environment characteristics etc. it also depends greatly on the type of situation, the degree of urgency, obstacles and the speed of vehicle. In our project we are going to analyse the reaction time based on driver's characteristics with the help of driving simulator, for the selected road stretch. The analysis of reaction time will help to assess the effectiveness of various measures to decrease the accident rate, thus the analysis estimates the relative safety of the selected road stretch.