Effects of combined Phone use and Alcohol-impaired Driving Behaviours among Female Drivers; A Driving Simulator Study
2022-01-0972
03/29/2022
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- Content
- Driver behavior and passenger safety remain one of the foremost axes developed for investigative research in driving simulator studies. However, a plethora of studies on driver’s behaviour using driving simulators has seen the underrepresentation of female participants whose characteristics have scarcely been investigated. More tellingly, the responsibility of female drivers for road traffic accidents with respect to cell phone use and alcohol-impaired behaviours is overlooked. Using a driving simulator experiment, this study thematically modelled and analysed the combined upshot of cell phone use and alcohol-impaired tasks among 15 female driver participants. The experiment was carried out in an urban simulated environment to extract discrete responses from these intoxicated drivers at four different levels of blood alcohol concentration (BAC) (0%, 0.02%, 0.05%, and 0.08%). Vehicle telematic variables such as acceleration (m/s2), vehicle speed (m/s), angular velocity (rad/s2) and RPM - transmission (rev/min) were obtained as signatures to driver performance measures. In this paper, a review of existing literature was conducted and summarized to provide considerations for studies investigating the female driver behavior in the era of highly automated driving simulator studies. Drunk driving at all BAC levels was analyzed using a linear logistic regression model and the relevance of the binary response variable was established. The results showed that for a 1% increase in alcohol level, the vehicle speed will increase by 22.6 m/s. Furthermore, an increase in acceleration of 1 m/s2 will increase the vehicle speed by 1.3 m/s, as obtained from the model. This article serves as a reference for stakeholders to get more details on dangerous driving behaviors among female drivers.
- Citation
- Frimpong, J., Prince PhD, O., Agyeman, P., Arhin, E. et al., "Effects of combined Phone use and Alcohol-impaired Driving Behaviours among Female Drivers; A Driving Simulator Study," SAE Technical Paper 2022-01-0972, 2022, .