This project would assess whether in vehicle digital warning messages (e.g. alerts broadcast from a digital alerting equipped vehicle) influence driver speed behaviour at locations where visibility is limited, such as crests and horizontal curves, or other obstructions. The study would compare vehicle speeds with and without active digital alerts to determine whether earlier warning leads to reduced speeds.
Indicative Scope:
- Select 13 representative crest or curve locations where a vehicle can be safely positioned and equipped with digital alert capability
- Conduct speed surveys with alerts inactive vs active
- Analyse mean speed, 85th percentile speed and speed variance supplement with third party data where possible (and potentially other methods like drones and video analytics if available)
- Discuss implications for road safety, worker protection and use of digital messaging as a low cost safety treatment.
School
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Area
Civil engineering - Transport engineering
Suitable for recognition of Work Integrated Learning (industrial training)?
Yes
- Research environment
- Expected outcomes
- Supervisory team
- Reference material/links
Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovations (rCITI), School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Expected outcomes are to publish the results as a research paper.
- There is a possibility to work closely with an industry partner on this topic.