Presentation
An Integrated Approach to Visualizing a Nighttime Accident Scene for Human Factors Analysis
DescriptionA passenger was injured in a motor vehicle accident after an alcohol-impaired driver claimed that he could not distinguish a private commercial roadway from the nearby on-ramp to the interstate. A forensic engineering team was retained to perform a human factors analysis of the accident. The team focused its analysis on the cues that a driver would have likely observed during the seven-minute drive between the bar parking lot to the crash location. Two sets of videos were generated as demonstrative aids, one based on the driver’s testimony and one based on the path necessary to navigate safely onto the interstate. To account for changes in the surrounding environment over the five years between the accident and the analysis, calibrated nighttime videography was integrated with a virtual environment built from laser scan data and scene, aerial, and historical photographs to re-create views from the driver’s perspective.
Event Type
Industry/Practitioner Case Study
Lecture
TimeFriday, September 13th10:25am - 10:45am MST
LocationFLW Salon G
Surface Transportation