Drivers’ Performance and Brain Workload Activities after Alcohol Consumption using Driving Simulation
Highway crashes are a serious social and public health problem across the globe. The issue of alcohol impaired driving is a contributory factor identified as a focal area for the US-DOT, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), as well as other interest groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), that have been working on several programs to reduce fatalities and severe injuries associated with driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI). According to the NHTSA, in the United States and Puerto Rico in 2016, 10,497 people lost their lives in crashes where alcohol consumption was present. In the last five years, according to the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), approximately one-third of the deaths involved drivers with blood alcohol concentration (BAC) levels higher than 0.08%. Even responsible drivers sometimes struggle with the decision of whether to drive after socially drinking as they consider to be still capable of driving safely. The proposed research study will address this problem by identifying a set of factors to determine how many drinks a subject can drink and reasonably perceive that can drive safely with the use of the Driving Simulator of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM). A new factor included in this research is the drivers’ cognitive workload or brain workload. This variable will be measured using a dry-electrode EEG and the algorithms to measure workload that has been developed by the providers of this type of equipment. The identification of these factors would allow state, local and federal institutions to target specific population groups in their educational and awareness campaigns.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Received 6 month extension due to COVID delays. Received additional 3 month no-cost extension due to COVID.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $51985
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Contract Numbers:
69A3551747131
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Sponsor Organizations:
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
University Transportation Centers Program
Department of Transportation
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Managing Organizations:
University of Iowa, Iowa City
National Advanced Driving Simulator, 2401 Oakdale Blvd
Iowa City, IA United States 52242-5003 -
Performing Organizations:
University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
Department of Civil Engineering and Surveying
PO Box 9000
Mayagüez PR 00681-9000, PR United States 00681-9000 -
Principal Investigators:
Valdes Diaz, Didier
- Start Date: 20190601
- Expected Completion Date: 20210930
- Actual Completion Date: 0
- USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Alcohol use; Algorithms; Brain; Driver performance; Driving simulators; Drunk driving; Electrocardiography; Workload
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01699802
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Safety Research Using Simulation University Transportation Center (SaferSim)
- Contract Numbers: 69A3551747131
- Files: UTC, RIP
- Created Date: Mar 26 2019 7:43PM