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Louisiana State University

2014

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Assessing The Effects Of Work Zone Configurations On Drivers' Visual Attention, Karthy Punniaraj Jan 2014

Assessing The Effects Of Work Zone Configurations On Drivers' Visual Attention, Karthy Punniaraj

LSU Master's Theses

This study assessed the effects of two different work zone configurations on driver’s visual attention by eye movement monitoring. A driving simulator study was conducted with thirty participants. Variations in traffic density and warning sign placement distance were added to the merge configurations to simulate the real time situation. A 2 x 2 x 3 within-subjects factorial design was used for this research. The independent variables used in this study were (1) merge configuration [(i) Conventional Lane Merge (CLM) and (ii) Joint Lane Merge (JLM)], (2) traffic density [(i) high and (ii) low] and (3) distance between traffic signs [(i) …