Strategic Experimentation Helps Engineer Road Safety Improvements

Maryam Zahabi, an industrial engineer at North Carolina State University, uses JMP® to analyze designed experiments that gauge the effects of on-road signage and in-vehicle technologies on driver attention allocation among both civilian drivers and police officers.

Visual stimuli both from inside and outside a vehicle are responsible for hundreds of distracted driving deaths each year. Improving the design of in-vehicle technologies and road signage to account for driver safety could save countless lives.

With the results of her experiments, Zahabi and her colleagues plan to provide the Department of Transportation with improved design and formatting guidelines for on-road signage. Her analysis will also help improve mobile computer terminal interface design for police cruisers nationwide.

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