CPS: Medium: Addressing Design and Human Factors Challenges in Cyber Transportation Systems

摘要项目1035733：解决设计和人为因素的挑战，在网络交通系统这个项目有两个密切相关的目标。首先是设计和评估新的网络交通系统（CTS）应用程序，以改善交通安全和交通运营。二是设计开发了交通-驾驶-联网一体化模拟器。该项目采用多学科方法，结合了网络技术、交通工程和人为因素。 虽然交通运输对社会发挥着不可或缺的作用，但它在事故、拥堵、污染和能源消耗方面也有自己的负面影响。为了改善交通安全，该项目将开发和评估新的算法和协议，用于优先化，交付和融合各种警告信息，以减少司机？响应时间和工作量，防止相互冲突的警告，并尽量减少误报。 为了改善交通运营，该项目将专注于为正常和紧急运营（例如恶劣天气和疏散场景）设计下一代交通管理和控制算法。人类行为建模方法和人类主体？在这项研究中，将采用实验方法来处理人的因素。由于CTS应用程序的设计和评估需要一个有效的开发和测试平台，将人类，交通和网络元素联系起来，该项目还将设计和开发一个模拟器，该模拟器结合了交通模拟器，网络模拟器和驾驶模拟器的主要功能。集成的模拟器将允许人类驾驶员在具有现实背景交通的虚拟环境中控制主体车辆，该虚拟环境能够与驾驶员和其他车辆进行CTS消息通信。 背景交通将控制一个现实的驱动程序模型的基础上，我们的人为因素的研究，占CTS消息？对驾驶员行为的影响。 智力优势：该项目在CTS安全和操作应用的设计和评估中明确考虑了人为因素，这一主题尚未得到足够的重视。 此外，建议的综合模拟器代表了一个独一无二的模拟器，具有独特的功能，可以减少新的CTS应用程序的设计和评估成本。更广泛的影响：建议的研究可以提高交通系统的安全性，效率和环境友好，这是现代社会的基础，直接影响生活质量。 综合模拟器将被用作青少年和老年驾驶员教育和培训的工具，并激励少数民族，初中和高中学生追求数学，科学和计算机相关领域的职业生涯

Abstract for Project 1035733:Addressing Design and Human Factors Challenges in Cyber-Transportation Systems This project has two closely related objectives. The first is to design and evaluate new Cyber Transportation Systems (CTS) applications for improved traffic safety and traffic operations. The second is to design and develop an integrated traffic-driving-networking simulator. The project takes a multi-disciplinary approach that combines cyber technologies, transportation engineering and human factors. While transportation serves indispensible functions to society, it does have its own negative impacts in terms of accidents, congestion, pollution, and energy consumption. To improve traffic safety, the project will develop and evaluate novel algorithms and protocols for prioritization, delivery and fusion of various warning messages so as to reduce drivers? response time and workload, prevent conflicting warnings, and minimize false alarms. To improve traffic operations, the project will focus on the design of next generation traffic management and control algorithms for both normal and emergency operations (e.g. during inclement weather and evacuation scenarios). Both human performance modeling methods and human subjects? experimental methods will be used to address the human element in this research. As the design and evaluation of CTS applications requires an effective development and testing platform linking the human, transportation and cyber elements, the project will also design and develop a simulator that combines the main features of a traffic simulator, a networking simulator and a driving simulator. The integrated simulator will allow a human driver to control a subject vehicle in a virtual environment with realistic background traffic, which is capable of communicating with the driver and other vehicles with CTS messages. Background traffic will be controlled by a realistic driver model based on our human factors research that accounts for CTS messages? impact on driver behavior. Intellectual Merits: The project explicitly considers human factors in the design and evaluation of CTS safety and operations applications, a topic which has not received adequate attention. Moreover, the proposed integrated simulator represents a first-of-a-kind simulator with unique features that can reduce the design and evaluation costs of new CTS applications.Broader Impacts: The proposed research can improve the safety, efficiency and environmental-friendless of transportation systems, which serve as the very foundation of modern societies and directly affects the quality of life. The integrated simulator will be used as a tool for teenage and elderly driver education and training, and to inspire minority, middle and high school students to pursue careers in math, science, and computer-related fields