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Hui Hu1, Feng He1, Yunwei Meng2
1Nanchang Urban Planning & Design Institute Group Co., Ltd., Nanchang, 330038, China.
Abstract:
The content and density of traffic signs directly affect the operation of urban road traffic and drivers. To overcome the limitations of quantitative research on the density threshold of traffic signs on urban roads, a real vehicle experiment was conducted to record the psychological characteristics of drivers. Four psychological parameters of drivers-pupil area, fixation intensity, heart rate change rate, and heart rate variability-were explored. Subsequently, principal component analysis was used to present a new index, S, divided into 5 grade scales, to represent the driving visual comfort level. The information entropy theory was applied to quantify the amount of information on road traffic signs that are included in driving tests, and a regression relationship between the traffic sign information and comfort index S was established. The visual psychological load thresholds for different comfort levels were -2.289≤S < -1.526 for very comfortable, 1.526≤S < -0.763 for relatively comfortable, -0.763≤S ≤ 0.763 for comfortable, 0.763
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