Road Safety Research

VR Design Studio can facilitate advance cognitive research into driver behaviours under a wide range of realistic weather, traffic and road surface conditions including rain, snow and off-road scenarios.

Features and Functions

• Multi-Driver Clustered Research Systems
• General Public & Teen Driver Programs in all weathers, on or off Road
• First Responders, Police, Military, Bus & Heavy Vehicles• Simulate multiple driving Scenarios including emergency events
• Researcher can control the driving scenarios dynamically
• Scenario editor enables an unlimited number of driver training scenarios to be produced
• Way points can be pre-set to activate individual scenarios
• Comprehensive driver performance monitoring and reporting capability

Click to watch Morgan State University Safety and Behavioral Research (SABA)Video

Interactive 3D VR Environments
• Build or import pre-built hypothetical and actual real-world road networks
• Enables total control over all environmental factors, either pre-set or dynamically activated, including all weather and day/night scenarios.

 

 

Specialist 3D VR Simulation Plug-ins

VR Design Studio plug-ins enable users to add features and functionality to the software. These plug-ins include, for example, the ability to incorporate head mounted displays (HMD), eye-tracking systems, pedestrian, traffic, & flood modelling software, as well as tsunami, earthquake & emergency evacuation systems into the Drive Simulation system.

The VR-Design Studio portfolio of plug-ins also enable a range of other data sources such as: photogrammetry, LiDAR and Photo-logs to be utilised in the development of the most highly realistic 3D VR immersive real-world environments possible. In addition, there are software plug-ins available for 2D micro-simulation traffic and pedestrian systems, such as the market leading software PTV VISSIM, enabling users to drive within realistic VISSIM driver behaviour data.

Visual Options
  • Multi-projector systems with edge blending capability
  • Single or multiple curved LCD High Resolution screens
  • 360˚ Cave like Dome Systems
  • Head mounted displays (HMDs) such as Oculus Rift, HTC VIVE & FOVE

 

Additional & Customized Functions
  • Simulate Autonomous & Connected Vehicle driving
  • Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) Simulation,
  • V2V, V2I & V2P (Pedestrians)
  • Interface HILs & SILs systems
  • Virtual Display HUD and PIP features
  • Eye Tracking & Biometric system integration
  • Parametric 3D modelling feature supported
  • Vehicle Dynamics options – CarSim, TruckSim & CarMaker
  • A Software Development Kit (SDK) is available for users to customize their own systems
Download Case Studies

Morgan State University

Morgan State University Department of Transportation & Urban Infrastructure Studies: Research into driver and traffic behaviour.

 

North Carolina State University

NCSU: An Assessment of Safety and Geometric Design Criteria for Diverging Diamond Interchanges