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

该项目由SBE理事会的本科生研究经验（REU）站点计划资助。REU项目具有科学和社会效益，它将研究和教育相结合。这个REU交通行为科学网站的目标是为各种各样的本科生研究人员提供心理学和工程学各个子领域的研究技能培训，为跨学科的交通科学做出贡献。学生将接触到交通科学的跨学科性质，并在各个交通领域进行理论和应用影响的研究。学生将在人在环模拟实验、基于问卷的行为研究和直接观察中学习各种行为科学和工程方法。学生将与他们的教师导师密切合作，研究一些活跃的研究课题，如自动驾驶系统、驾驶员工作量、分心驾驶、过马路行为和驾驶员的顺从反应，以及飞行员的表现和对飞机的信任。该项目将帮助学生为高等教育和各种交通领域的职业做好准备。跨学科交通领域在人类感知和认知、行为、工程、公共卫生和方法等领域都有理论发展，对减少机动车辆碰撞造成的伤害和死亡至关重要。该项目将让REU学生在为期10周的暑期项目中参与跨学科交通科学的实践研究活动，包括研究研讨会、讲习班、指导研究活动和大学赞助的海报会议，这些会议将把工作成果转化为专业会议报告和/或同行评审的出版物。该项目将提供使用驾驶和飞行模拟、人类行为建模、眼动追踪和现场方法等研究技能的培训。REU计划还将提供研究生申请和交通领域职业发展的指导。该计划将有助于研究人员的发展，以跨学科，理论驱动的观点推进交通科学。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.