The correlation between drivers’ road familiarity and glance behavior using real vehicle experimental data and mathematical models
Journal article, 2024

Objective: Road familiarity is an important factor affecting drivers’ visual features. Analyzing the quantitative correlation between drivers’ road familiarity and visual features in complex environment is of great help to improve driving safety. However, there are few relevant studies. This paper takes urban plane intersection as the environmental object to explore the correlation between drivers’ glance behavior and road familiarity, and conducts research on the quantitative evaluation model of road familiarity based on this correlation. Method: First, a real vehicle experiment was carried out to record the eye movement data of 24 drivers with different road familiarity. The driver’s visual field plane was divided into 10 areas of interest (AOIs) based on the driver’s perspective. Three measures, including average glance duration, number of glances, and fixation transition probabilities between AOIs at urban plane intersections, were extracted. Finally, based on the experimental results, the driver road familiarity evaluation model was constructed using the factor analysis method. Results: There are significant differences between unfamiliar and familiar drivers regarding the average glance duration toward the forward (FW) area, the left window (LW) area, the left rearview mirror (LVM) area and the left forward (LF) area, the number of glances toward the other (OT) area, and the fixation transition probabilities of LW→RF (right forward), LF→LF, LF→FW, FW→LW, FW→FW, FW→RVM (right rearview mirror). The comprehensive evaluation results show that the accuracy rate of the driver road familiarity evaluation model reached 83%. Conclusions: This paper revealed that there is a strong correlation between drivers’ road familiarity and drivers’ glance behavior. Based on this correlation, we can include road familiarity as a part of drivers’ working status and establish a high accuracy evaluation model of driver road familiarity. The conclusion of this paper can provide some reference for the humanized design and improvement of advanced driving assistance system, which is of great significance for reducing the driving workload of drivers and improving the driving safety.

urban plane intersection

factor analysis

glance behavior

Driver’s eye movements

road familiarity

Author

Jing Huang

Hunan University

Yezi Hu

Hunan University

Lin Hu

Changsha University of Science and Technology

Guangtao Guo

Ltd

Kun Gao

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Geology and Geotechnics

Traffic Injury Prevention

1538-9588 (ISSN) 1538-957X (eISSN)

Vol. 25 5 705-713

Subject Categories

Applied Psychology

Vehicle Engineering

DOI

10.1080/15389588.2024.2324915

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