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Public Library of Science, PLoS ONE, 9(10), p. e0138617, 2015

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138617

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How Does the Driver’s Perception Reaction Time Affect the Performances of Crash Surrogate Measures?

Journal article published in 2015 by Yan Kuang, Xiaobo Qu ORCID, Jinxian Weng, Amir Etemad-Shahidi
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

With the merit on representing traffic conflict through examining the crash mechanism and causality proactively, crash surrogate measures have long been proposed and applied to evaluate the traffic safety. However, the driver’s Perception-Reaction Time (PRT), an important variable in crash mechanism, has not been considered widely into surrogate measures. In this regard, it is important to know how the PRT affects the performances of surrogate indicators. To this end, three widely used surrogate measures are firstly modified by involving the PRT into their crash mechanisms. Then, in order to examine the difference caused by the PRT, a comparative study is carried out on a freeway section of the Pacific Motorway, Australia. This result suggests that the surrogate indicators’ performances in representing rear-end crash risks are improved with the incorporating of the PRT for the investigated section.