Barnard, YF, Utesch, F, Van Nes, N et al. (2 more authors) (2016) The study design of UDRIVE: the Naturalistic Driving Study across Europe for cars, trucks and scooters. European Transport Research Review, 8 (2). 8:14. ISSN 1867-0717
Abstract
Purpose: UDRIVE is the first large-scale European Naturalistic Driving Study on cars, trucks and powered two wheelers. The acronym stands for "European naturalistic Driving and Riding for Infrastructure & Vehicle safety and Environment". The purpose of the study is to gain a better understanding of what happens on the road in everyday traffic situations. Methods: The paper describes Naturalistic Driving Studies, a method which provides insight into the actual real-world behaviour of road users, unaffected by experimental conditions and related biases. Naturalistic driving can be defined as a study undertaken to provide insight into driver behaviour during everyday trips by recording details of the driver, the vehicle and the surroundings through unobtrusive data gathering equipment and without experimental control. Data collection will take place in six EU Member States. Results: Road User Behaviour will be studied with a focus on both safety and environment. The UDRIVE project follows the steps of the FESTA-V methodology, which was originally designed for Field Operational Tests. Conclusions: Defining research questions forms the basis of the study design and the specification of the recording equipment. Both will be described in this paper. Although the project has just started collecting data from drivers, we consider the process of designing the study as a major result which may help other initiatives to set up similar studies.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2016, The Author(s). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
Keywords: | naturalistic driving study; road user behaviour;; road safety; eco-driving |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > Institute for Transport Studies (Leeds) > ITS: Safety and Technology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 11 May 2016 09:47 |
Last Modified: | 17 Jan 2018 06:37 |
Published Version: | http://doi.org/10.1007/s12544-016-0202-z |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Verlag |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s12544-016-0202-z |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:99530 |