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Effect Of Information On Driver's Risk At The Onset Of Yellow, Nathaniel P. Burnett
Effect Of Information On Driver's Risk At The Onset Of Yellow, Nathaniel P. Burnett
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Intersection crashes average approximately 8,500 fatal and 900,000 injury accidents a year (1). At the onset of yellow at a high speed signalized intersection, a driver may encounter a region of the intersection approach, where they can neither stop safely nor be able to clear the intersection before the red indication. A wrong decision to stop when it would have been safer to proceed can lead to a severe rear-end collision. Conversely, a wrong decision to proceed through the intersection could lead to the driver running the red light and possibly causing a right angle collision. The traditional …