Light Truck Vehicle Contribution to Rear-End Collisions

摘要: Light truck vehicles (LTVs), comprising light-duty trucks, vans, and sport-utility (SUVs) drive higher wider than passenger car,s which could affect the visibility for following car driver. This paper investigates contribution of LTV to rear-end collisions resulting from horizontal blockage using University Central Florida sophisticated reconfigurable driving simulator. Indeed, a sudden stop an LTV, in shadow blindness succeeding driver, may deprive vehicle sufficient response time, leading high probability collision. To investigate this issue, two sub-scenarios were developed UCF The first sub-scenario serving as base where simulator follows car, second test sub-scenario, LTV. results obtained by comparing showed that LTVs produce more at unsignalized intersections due drivers’ behavior when behind