TY - JOUR PY - 2012// TI - How shall we design the future vehicle for Chinese market JO - Work A1 - Chen, Fang A1 - Wang, Minjuan A1 - Zhu, Xi Chan A1 - Li, Jiaqi SP - 4265 EP - 4272 VL - 41 IS - N2 - Surface transportation system is developing very fast in China and the number of vehicles is increasing quickly as well. This development creates a lot of problems on traffic safety and the number of accident is also increasing. In this paper, we made deep analysis of different possible causes of safety problems through three aspects: the traffic environment and infrastructure, in-vehicle information system design and the characteristics of drivers. There are many factors in each aspects may contribute to the transportation safety problems. Problems with infrastructure design and traffic design contribute over 50% of the traffic accident. Another important factor is that people has very little traffic safety concept and very weak on understanding the important of right behavior on the road. This paper has pointed the urgent needs to study the human factors in road and transportation system and vehicle HMI design, as there are very few such studies available in literature based on Chinese situation. The paper also proposed the needs to develop proactive educational system that can promote driver's understanding of traffic safety and to take the right action during drive.
Language: en
LA - en SN - 1051-9815 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/WOR-2012-0721-4265 ID - ref1 ER -