REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research Experience in Behavioral Sciences of Transportation Issues

该项目由SBE董事会的本科生研究经验（REU）网站计划资助。REU计划具有科学和社会效益，它整合了研究和教育。这个REU网站在行为科学运输的目标是提供一个多元化的本科研究人员群体与心理学和工程的各个子领域的研究技能，有助于跨学科的运输科学的培训。学生将接触到交通科学的跨学科性质，并进行在各个交通领域具有理论和应用影响的研究。学生将学习各种行为科学和工程方法，包括人在回路模拟实验，基于行为的研究和直接观察。学生将与他们的教师导师密切合作，积极研究主题，如自动驾驶系统，驾驶员工作量，分心驾驶，行人过街行为和驾驶员屈服反应，以及飞行员的表现和对飞机的信任。该项目将帮助学生为各种交通领域的高等教育和职业做好准备。跨学科的交通领域在人类感知和认知，行为，工程，公共卫生和方法论领域的理论发展，仅举几例，对于减少机动车碰撞造成的伤害和死亡至关重要。该计划将在为期10周的暑期课程中让REU学生参与跨学科交通科学的实践研究活动，该课程将包括研究研讨会，研讨会，指导研究活动和大学赞助的海报会议，预计将工作塑造成专业会议演示和/或同行评审的出版物。该计划将提供使用驾驶和飞行模拟，人类表现建模，眼动跟踪和实地方法等研究技能的培训。REU计划还将提供交通领域研究生院申请和职业发展的指导。该计划将有助于发展研究人员谁推进交通科学与跨学科的，理论驱动的，perspectives.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。

This project is funded from the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program in the SBE Directorate. The REU program has both scientific and societal benefits, and it integrates research and education. The goal of this REU Site on transportation in the behavioral sciences is to provide a diverse group of undergraduate researchers with training on research skills in various subfields of Psychology and Engineering that contribute to interdisciplinary transportation science. Students will be exposed to the interdisciplinary nature of transportation science and conduct research that has both theoretical and applied impact in various transportation areas. Students will learn a variety of behavioral science and engineering methods within human-in-the-loop simulation experiments, questionnaire-based behavioral research, and direct observation. Students will work closely with their faculty mentors on active research topics, such as automated driving systems, driver workload, distracted driving, pedestrian crossing behaviors and driver yielding responses, and pilot performance and trust in aircrafts. This project will help prepare students for higher education and careers in various transportation areas. The interdisciplinary transportation field enjoys theoretical developments in human perception and cognition, behavioral, engineering, public health and methodological areas to name a few, and is critical for reducing injuries and deaths resulting from motor vehicle crashes. This program will engage REU students in hands-on research activities in interdisciplinary transportation science in a 10-week summer program that will include research seminars, workshops, mentored research activities, and University sponsored poster session that are expected to shape the work into professional conference presentations and/or peer-reviewed publications. The program will offer training on research skills using driving and flight simulation, human performance modeling, eye tracking and field methods, among others. The REU program will also offer instructions in graduate school application and career development in transportation fields. The program will contribute to the development of researchers who advance transportation science with interdisciplinary, theory-driven, perspectives.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.