Driver Response Time and Age Impact on the Reaction Time of Drivers: A Driving Simulator Study among Professional-Truck Drivers

Milos Poliak, Lucia Svabova, Jan Benus and Ebru Demirci
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Milos Poliak: Department of Road and Urban Transport, Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Zilina, Univerzitna 1, SK-010 26 Zilina, Slovakia
Lucia Svabova: Department of Economics, Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Zilina, Univerzitna 1, SK-010 26 Zilina, Slovakia
Jan Benus: Department of Road and Urban Transport, Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Zilina, Univerzitna 1, SK-010 26 Zilina, Slovakia
Ebru Demirci: Department of Logistics, Faculty of Transportation and Logistics, Avcilar Campus, Istanbul University, 34322 Istanbul, Turkey

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 9, 1-16

Abstract: Drivers’ response time means that drivers act after a judgment is made when an emergency action signal is needed. Drivers have different feelings while driving, and the response time to sudden situations differs. The main purpose of this study was to verify whether the mean reaction time of professional drivers is at the level of one second, which is the value usually used for practical purposes, and to verify the impact of age on the reaction times of drivers. Two different studies with a total of 120 participants—professional drivers—were conducted on the simulator, with 116 drivers participating in the first experiment and four drivers participating in the second experiment using eye-tracking technology. The determination of the mean reaction time was realized using statistical tests. The evaluation of the impact of age on the reaction time of professional drivers was carried out using statistical testing, a regression model, and clustering. The results of this study can be immediately used in practice for professional drivers, as the mean reaction time is usually used as a benchmark in several calculations in transport, for forensic and educational purposes, and for planning traffic and modelling different traffic situations.

Keywords: reaction time; driver distraction; road freight transportation; driving simulator (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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