Driving distraction at night: The impact of cell phone use on driving behaviors among young drivers |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, Thailand;2. Department of Epidemiology, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, Thailand;3. Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, Thailand;4. Road Safety Policy Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand;5. Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, Udon Thani Provincial Public Health Office, Udon Thani, Thailand;6. The Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand;1. School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Queensland 4222, Australia;2. Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University, Nathan Campus, Queensland 4111, Australia;3. Cities Research Institute, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Queensland 4222, Australia;4. Queensland University of Technology, Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety – Queensland, Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, Queensland 4059, Australia;5. Queensland University of Technology, School of Psychology & Counselling, Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, Queensland 4059, Australia;1. Department of Traffic Psychology, Institute of Special Environmental Medicine, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China;2. Jiangsu Shipping College, Nantong, Jiangsu, China;3. Jiangsu Vocational College of Business, Nantong, Jiangsu, China;4. Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA;5. School of Education Science, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China;1. School of Engineering, RMIT University, Australia;2. Metro Trains Melbourne, Australia;1. Department of Psychology and Sociology, Universidad de Zaragoza, C/Ciudad Escolar s/n, 44003 Teruel, Spain;2. Departamento de Metodología, Neuropsicobiología y Psicología Básica y Social, Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir, Valencia, Spain |
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| Abstract: | Currently, young drivers are more likely than other drivers to use cell phones while driving at night, which has become a major cause of road crashes. However, limited attention has been given to distracted nighttime driving. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore the interaction effect of cell phone use and time of day (daytime and nighttime) on young drivers’ car-following performance. Forty-three young drivers engaged in a driving simulator experiment with a within-subject design that included three distractions (no distraction, talking and texting on a cell phone) and two times of day. This paper applied non-parametric tests to analyze the data and obtained the following results: (1) the standard deviation of lane position (SDLP) did not significantly differ at either time of day under no distraction, but it was significantly higher at night on straight roads and large-radius curves after introducing distractions. In addition, participants drove faster and gave less headway on small-radius curves under both distractions at night; (2) texting significantly increased the SDLP, while there was less lateral variation during the talking tasks than under no distraction on simple road sections; and (3) compared with the experienced drivers, the novice drivers drove faster during the talking tasks on small-radius curves, but there was no significant difference between groups during the texting tasks. These findings provide both theoretical and practical implications for related policy makers to enhance traffic safety. |
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| Keywords: | Driving distraction Cell phone use Nighttime driving Young drivers Driving simulator |
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