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Presentation
Evaluation on the Effectiveness of Sideview Video Systems to Reduce Transit Bus Side Crashes
Sustainable Transportation Systems: Plan, Design, Build, Manage, and Maintain: Proceedings of the Ninth Asia Pacific Transportation Development Conference
  • Pei-Sung Lin, University of South Florida
  • Achilleas Kourtellis, University of South Florida
  • Chanyoung Lee, Ph.D., AICP, PTP, University of South Florida
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Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-1-2012
Keywords
  • accidents,
  • imaging techniques,
  • geomatic surveys,
  • driver behavior,
  • cameras,
  • buses,
  • transportation safety,
  • work zones
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784412299.0045
Abstract

The camera-based system has great potential to reduce transit bus side crashes. This paper evaluated the effectiveness of sideview video systems to reduce transitbus side crashes through measuring the reduction of blind zones, and analyzing the results of controlled driving tests and driver surveys using sideview videosystems. The result from measurements of blind zone reduction showed that the sideview video systems with a regular angle lens can reduce about 64 percent of the blind zones of a flat mirror system. It can reduce about 43 percent of blind zones of a common combined flat and convex mirror system. The result of the controlled driving test from 28 bus drivers was positive on distance/depth perception and lane change maneuvers using sideview video systems. The driver survey results also confirmed that bus drivers participating in the study valued the benefits of sideview video systems.

Citation / Publisher Attribution

Sustainable Transportation Systems: Plan, Design, Build, Manage, and Maintain: Proceedings of the Ninth Asia Pacific Transportation Development Conference, Chongqing, China, 2012, p. 372-379.

Citation Information
Pei-Sung Lin, Achilleas Kourtellis and Chanyoung Lee. "Evaluation on the Effectiveness of Sideview Video Systems to Reduce Transit Bus Side Crashes" Sustainable Transportation Systems: Plan, Design, Build, Manage, and Maintain: Proceedings of the Ninth Asia Pacific Transportation Development Conference (2012) p. 372 - 379
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/pei-sung-lin/28/