Critical Threshold of Highway Length Under Monotonous Landscaping Patterns

WEI Zhonghua; ZHAO Xia

doi:10.11936/bjutxb2015040029

Journal of Beijing University of Technology > 2016 > 42(1): 95-106. > DOI: 10.11936/bjutxb2015040029

WEI Zhonghua, ZHAO Xia. Critical Threshold of Highway Length Under Monotonous Landscaping Patterns[J]. Journal of Beijing University of Technology, 2016, 42(1): 95-106. DOI: 10.11936/bjutxb2015040029

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Critical Threshold of Highway Length Under Monotonous Landscaping Patterns

College of Metropolitan Transportation,Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China

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Received Date: April 12, 2015
Available Online: January 10, 2023

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Based on applied theories of traffic engineering psychology,the paper aims to quantitatively analyze highway landscape's effect on driving behavior based on drivers' physiological performance,and quantify highway length thresholds under three typical landscape patterns,namely “open”,“semi-open”and “vertical”ones. These studies were designed in the combination of the driving-simulator studies with the field operational tests for verification. And devices utilized here were the driving simulator,and electrocardiograph. Specifically, vehicle-related data, ECG data and supplemental subjective stress perception were collected. The evaluation results extrapolated the drivers ' U-shaped physiological response to landscape patterns. Models on highway length were built based on LF / HF's variation trend with highway length. The results reveal that the theoretical highway length threshold tends to increase when the landscape pattern was switched to open,semi-open and vertical ones. The reliability and accuracy of the results is validated by questionnaires and field operational tests. With precision rates of theoretical thresholds higher than 90%,the model results were testified to have had high reliabilities.
- highway landscape,
- spatial patterns,
- effect mechanism,
- driving behavior,
- critical threshold

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