Study on Changes of Vehicle Driving Behavior Characteristics for Alcohol Used Drivers

Abstract:

Drunk driving is proved to be dangerous for traffic transportation safety. However, there are still no specific conclusions about what changes do drinking make to each kind of driving behaviors. This paper set out a drunk states induce program and a simulated driving experiment to measure the data about driving speed, overspeed driving probability, brake frequency, probability of deceleration for avoidance and probability of running red lights when the drivers were in different degree of drunk states. Results showed that driving speed increases significantly only in state of heavy drunk while decreases slightly in state of moderate drunk. Overspeed probability grows higher as the drivers drink more. Brake frequency increases slightly in state of light drunk, but has no obvious change in state of moderate drunk, however decreases significantly in state of heavy drunk. Probability of deceleration for avoidance decreases a little in state of light drunk but significantly in state of heavy drunk, however increases in state of moderate dunk. Probability of running red lights increases significantly only in state of heavy drunk, but has no obvious change in both states of light drunk and moderate drunk. All these support a conclusion that drinking has different influences on each kind of driving behaviors, which perform differently for traffic transportation safety. Judgments for drunk driving related issues should be decided on each specific matter.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 1030-1032)
• Pages: 2115-2120
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1030-1032.2115
• Online since: September 2014
• Authors: Ming En Zhong*, Han Chi Hong, Jian Jin Cai
• Keywords: Driver, Driving Behaviors, Drunk Driving, Traffic Transportation Safety

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