TY - GEN
T1 - Interaction at the Bottleneck – A Traffic Observation
AU - Rettenmaier, Michael
AU - Requena Witzig, Camilo
AU - Bengler, Klaus
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - At present, researchers and car manufacturers are focusing on the implementation of automated vehicles in road transport, which leads to mixed traffic containing automated vehicles and manual drivers. To realize this project, it is essential to understand the communicational processes and the interaction of contemporary road users. This paper focuses on investigating the interaction at bottlenecks caused by obstacles on both sides of the road, for instance due to double parking. The authors explore how drivers communicate to a simultaneously oncoming vehicle that they intend to pass through the narrow section first. As a method, a traffic observation was conducted. The results show that drivers almost exclusively use implicit means of communication. Moreover, four different interaction strategies could be found. Based on the underlying observation data, the authors provide recommendations on how automated vehicles might communicate implicitly by adopting the communication processes observed in the field study.
AB - At present, researchers and car manufacturers are focusing on the implementation of automated vehicles in road transport, which leads to mixed traffic containing automated vehicles and manual drivers. To realize this project, it is essential to understand the communicational processes and the interaction of contemporary road users. This paper focuses on investigating the interaction at bottlenecks caused by obstacles on both sides of the road, for instance due to double parking. The authors explore how drivers communicate to a simultaneously oncoming vehicle that they intend to pass through the narrow section first. As a method, a traffic observation was conducted. The results show that drivers almost exclusively use implicit means of communication. Moreover, four different interaction strategies could be found. Based on the underlying observation data, the authors provide recommendations on how automated vehicles might communicate implicitly by adopting the communication processes observed in the field study.
KW - Implicit communication
KW - Road bottleneck
KW - Traffic observation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85071467832&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-27928-8_37
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-27928-8_37
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85071467832
SN - 9783030279271
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 243
EP - 249
BT - Human Systems Engineering and Design II - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Human Systems Engineering and Design
A2 - Ahram, Tareq
A2 - Karwowski, Waldemar
A2 - Pickl, Stefan
A2 - Taiar, Redha
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Human Systems Engineering and Design: Future Trends and Applications, IHSED 2019
Y2 - 16 September 2019 through 18 September 2019
ER -