• Modeling the Effect of Operators' Adaptive Behavior on System Safety
  Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
  PI: Prof. Linda Ng Boyle
  Research Assistant: Huimin Xiong
  Understand and predict operator adaptive behavior.

• Independent Evaluation of On-board Monitoring of Commercial Vehicle Drivers
  Sponsor: US DOT - Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
  PI: Prof. Linda Ng Boyle
  Research Assistant: Yiyun Peng
  To evaluate naturalistic driving behaviors and performance of commercial vehicle drivers via an on-board monitoring system.

• Text reading and text input assessment in support of distraction guidelines
  Sponsor: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
  PI: Prof. Linda Ng Boyle
  Research Assistant: Yiyun Peng, Erika Miller, Yuqing Wu, Huimin Xiong, Sean Xuan
  To evaluate how much text drivers can read and input while driving, without decreasing their safety on the road.

• SHRP2 S07
  Sponsor: Transportation Research Board
  PI: John Campbell (Battelle)
  Research Assistant: Erika Miller
  The study's primary focus is improving safety by investigating ordinary driving under real-world conditions.

• Educating Teenage Drivers in the Pacific Northwest regarding the dangers of Distracted Driving
  Sponsor: PAC Trans
  PI: David Hurwitz (Oregon State University)
  Research Assistant: Erika Miller
  Administer a comprehensive demonstration that improves teenage driver perspectives towards the hazards of distracted driving.

• Effects of Roadway Conditions on Driver Behaviors
  Sponsor: UW Collge of Engineering
  PI: Prof. Linda Ng Boyle
  Research Assistant: Erika Miller
  This study uses stress as an indicator to assess how various roadway surface conditions affect driver behavior.

• Task Analytics and Time Series Analysis of Driver Behavior
  Sponsor: CSRC Collaborative Safety Research Center
  PI: Daniel V. McGehee (University of Iowa)
  Research Assistant: Yuqing Wu
  A pre-drive behavior study to determine the influence on driver-vehicle interactions.

• SHRP2 S02: Integration of Analysis methods and Development of Analysis Plan
  Sponsor: Transportation Research Board of the National Academies
  PI: Dr. Dan McGehee
  Produce work plans for the generation of S08 RFP that take into consideration the data available from the SHRP 2 naturalistic driving study and the analytical approaches.

• SHRP2 S01: Development of Analytical Tools to Evaluate Road Departure Crashes
  Sponsor: Transportation Research Board of the National Academies
  PI: Dr. Shauna Hallmark
  To formulate specific research questions relating to roadway departure in order to guide future naturalistic studies.

• Older Driver / Pedestrian Demonstration
  Sponsor: Iowa Department of Transportation
  To enhance the mobility of older drivers in Iowa City.

• Distraction Among Teenage Drivers
  Sponsor: Iowa Department of Transportation
  To capture the difference between actual and self-assessed driver distractions.

• Spatial and Temporal Differences in Midwestern Crashes
  Sponsor: Midwest Transportation Consortium/Iowa State University
  To understand what differences exist between geographic areas of the Midwest in terms of crash types, frequencies, severity, and seasonality.

• Age Related Differences in Rural Expressway Intersections
  Sponsor: Iowa Department of Transportation
  To understand the impacts of visual scanning patterns on driving behavior in expressway intersections.

• Night Visibility: Safety Benefits of Technology to the Driver
  Sponsor: Iowa Department of Transportation
  To examine night visibility, glare and discomfort and the potential benefits or pitfalls of halogen headlights.

• Driving with Visual Field Loss
  Sponsor: NHTSA
  To understand the impacts of visual field loss on overall driving performance. Improve the mobility of drivers with visual field loss through education and roadway design enhancements.

• The Impact of Driver Distraction on the Crash Risks of Younger Drivers
  Sponsor: Iowa Department of Transportation
  To understand what types of driver distraction affect younger drivers. To investigate the effect of driver distraction on the crash risks, including crash types and injury severity for teenage drivers and their passengers.

• Sleep related crash analysis and Traffic Safety among Older Drivers
  Sponsor: National Institute of Health
  PI: Dr. Matthew Rizzo
  To model older driver behavior and study crash patterns among older drivers.
  To investigate sleep related cognitive impairments and impact on driving activity.
  In conjunction with Neuroergonomics Lab.

• Visual-Spatial Abilities in Engineering Students
  Sponsor: University of Iowa internal CARVER grant
  PI: Dr. Linda Ng Boyle
  Understand the underlining abilities of engineering students to perform mental rotations among undergraduate engineering students. Understand what components of a three dimensional drawing facilitate easy mental rotation. Understand how self efficacy affects the mental rotation performance of students. Examine how varying degrees of mental rotation abilities affects the crash risks of college student drivers.

• Effectiveness of Short and Long Term Education Methods for Risk Mitigation and Associated Safety-Related Driving Skills

Sponsor: Toyota Collaborative Safety Research Center

PI: Prof. Linda Ng Boyle

Research Assistant: Huizhong Guo and Ning Li

• Safety Climate of Commercial Vehicle Operation
  Sponsor: Mid-America Transportation Center (MATC)
  PI: Prof. Linda Ng Boyle
  Research Assistant: Yiyun Peng
  To develop a set of safety climate related variables that capture the essence of safety manager attitudes .

• Defining Virtual Reality Driving in Traumatic Brain Injuries
  Sponsor: NIH - National Institutes of Health
  PI: Dr. Maria Schultheis
  To determine how virtual reality can be used in rehabilitation of drivers with traumatic brain injuries.
  To understand the differences between driving simulators and instrumented vehicles for use in training and rehabilitation of drivers with TBI.

• Assessing Transportation Needs of Medicaid Users
  Sponsor: Urban and Regional Planning, and the Public Policy Center
  To assess the current transportation ability for Medicaid recipient.
  To optimize the transportation options to provide improving quality of care.

• Investigating the Relationship Between Driver Stress and Injury Risks
  Sponsor: Iowa Department of Transportation
  Examined the environment factors that affect driving stress. Examined how the risk of injuries vary with different levels of stressful driving tasks.

• Augmented reality for control of reservation-based intersections with mixed flows
  Sponsor: NSF - National Science Foundation
  PI: Christian Claudel (The University of Texas at Austin)

• Evaluation of Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) Interface Requirements on the National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS)
  Sponsor: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
  PI: Jane Moeckli
  Research Assistant: Huimin Xiong
  Examine ACC usage and error patterns among early ACC users.

• Using Automation to Mitigate Driver Distraction
  Sponsor: NHTSA
  PI: Dr. John D. Lee
  Developed countermeasures that mitigate against inappropriate levels of distraction, while maintaining high levels of driver acceptance. Advanced the deployment of adaptive interface technology, and develop performance requirements and standards/guidelines for adaptive interface conventions.

• Advancing Multimodal Safety through Pedestrian Risk Reduction

Sponsor: WSDOT - Washington State Department of Transportation

PI: Prof. Linda Ng Boyle

• PEGASUS (Pediatric Guideline Adherence and Outcomes) Project
  Sponsor: NIH - National Institutes of Health
  PI: Monica S. Vavilala, MD - Professor of Anesthesiology & Pediatrics
  Research Assistant: Benjamin Ries
  The NIH funded the PEGASUS project to evaluate adherence to the Guidelines and the association between adherence and patient outcome.
  In collaboration with Northwestern University, University of California - Los Angeles, University of Pittsburgh and Ohio State University.

• Capturing Workload and Stress Among Commercial Aircraft Pilots to Enhance Pilot-Aircraft Interfaces

Sponsor: JCATI - Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation

PI: Prof. Linda Ng Boyle

Research Assistant: Steven Hwang and Fiete Krutein