Young drivers and graduated licensing: The Ontario case

Despite improvements in road safety over the past several decades, accident rates remain high for young drivers. One accident countermeasure that is expected to improve the safety record of this group is graduated licensing. The philosophy behind this licensing system is that novice drivers, of whom the majority are young, should be restricted to relatively safe driving environments during the initial learning period. Graduated licensing was implemented in the Province of Ontario, Canada in 1994. The objective of this study is to estimate the potential benefits and costs for young drivers associated with two components of the Ontario graduated licensing package: the late-night driving curfew and the high-speed roadway restrictions. Based on accident and travel data for the year 1988, accident-involvement rates per kilometre driven were calculated for different driver groups for various combinations of time of day and roadway speed limit. These rates were then applied to the expected mobility profiles of young drivers affected by graduated licensing. The results of the study support the late-night curfew and suggest that this component of the licensing package should reduce total accident involvements for the affected group by up to 10 percent and fatal accident involvements by up to 24 percent, while reducing their total driving by only four percent. By contrast, the empirical evidence suggest that the high-speed roadway restrictions are likely to increase accident involvements, and thus it is strongly recommended that this component of Ontario's graduated licensing package be changed.     

Windows CE流接口驱动程序设计方法

开发嵌入式操作系统的设备驱动程序是应用嵌入式技术的重要基础。流接口驱动程序是Windows CE基本的驱动程序，是很多驱动程序的基础。分析Windows CE流接口驱动程序的基本结构，探讨流接口驱动程序的功能定义，认为流接口驱动程序应当能为应用程序提供查询输入和事件输入等两种输入方式，给出中断程序设计、I/O缓冲区设计的注意事项，总结一般的流接口驱动程序设计开发方法。     

高速公路互通立交安全性设计研究

实现立交线形指标与交通流量、车辆行驶速度及司乘人员自然舒适感受三者之间的协调统一,是立交安全性设计的3大评价指标。以广州市北三环高速公路石滩立交的设计为例,研究分析了立交安全性设计应注意的若干问题。     

汽车驾驶员特征剖析及安全应对策略

人的因素在诱发交通事故的诸因素中占据主导地位,从汽车驾驶员的信息处理和判断操作方面进行剖析,构建驾驶员感知信息、判断以及操作全过程的框架图,并着重进行分析。结合交通运营中驾驶员存在的问题,对驾驶员自身素质及管理提出相应安全应对措施。     

A measurement to driving situation awareness in signalized intersections

Drivers get involved easily in Left-Turn Across Path with Opposite Direction Traffic (LTAP-OD) conflicts at signalized intersection with unprotected left-turn phasing. This study classified the left-turn drivers’ performance into four types: (1) the correct acceptance of safe lags/gaps, (2) the correct rejection of dangerous lags/gaps, (3) the false rejection of safe lags/gaps and (4) the false acceptance of dangerous lags/gaps. Based on the high mounted video camera data, the logistic regression model was used to obtain the critical gaps for estimating whether the lags/gaps were safe or not. The results show that the cognition behavior of the left-turn drivers should be improved while the gap/lag is drawn near the critical gap. Furthermore, the conservative drivers are more likely to reject the larger lags/gaps and yield the right-of-way to the opposing vehicles. Simultaneously the poor response execution may cause drivers to have difficulties during the turning performance when the lags/gaps are large enough. These results could be used as the basis for a discussion of the right time to support the drivers.     

机车乘务员心理卫生状况的调查分析

采用焦虑自评量表 (SAS)和抑郁自评量表(SDS) ,对 10 3名电力机车乘务员的心理卫生状况进行评价。结果表明 ,机车乘务员的SAS和SDS标准分均明显高于国内常模 (P <0 0 1) ,有明显的焦虑和抑郁症状。机车乘务作业对乘务员的心理健康有不良影响 ,但不具有时间剂量的累积效应 ;机车乘各员普遍存在着明显的心理卫生问题 ,其心理卫生状况与年龄、工龄没有明显关系。     

VMS交通诱导系统现状分析

对VMS应用现状进行了分析,阐述了信息发布对驾驶员行为决策的影响,指出当前VMS信息诱导系统存在的一些问题,对研究VMS下驾驶员行为特性的方法进行了探讨。