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Graduate Student Exploring Ways to Make Riding a Motorcycle Safer Using Connected Driving Data
Researchers at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University's Transportation Institute are studying the use of connected-vehicle technology and naturalistic driving research to improve transportation safety.
Credit: Virginia Tech News
Researchers at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University's (Virginia Tech) Transportation Institute are studying the use of connected-vehicle technology and naturalistic driving research to improve transportation safety and reduce crashes involving motorcycles.
The research entails studies in which participants use vehicles outfitted with Transportation Institute-developed data-acquisition systems that enable researchers to record vehicle and driver information when the vehicle is moving. Virginia Tech researchers have added data-acquisition systems to a wide range of vehicles, which collects information when the vehicle is moving.
"It's an innovative way to use naturalistic data," says Virginia Tech professor Jon Antin. "You have the potential to reduce single-vehicle accidents, property damage claims, and fatalities and injuries."
The researchers equipped motorcycles with data-acquisition systems employed in naturalistic test track and on-road driving research. Antin says the connected-vehicle technology can be integrated to present sound or visual alerts to drivers. In cars, the alerts could be transmitted via dashboard signals or sound, but motorcycles would need a different mechanism to safely warn riders, notes researcher Alexandria Noble.
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