ABSTRACT
ThisChapterpresentsastudywhosegoalistomodelthespeedanddistance managementstrategiesofdriversbasedontheirbehaviourinlltestsituations.The resultsofthisstudywillallowustobetteridentifydriverneedsinordertodesigna virtualprototypeforanewkindofauto-adaptivecruisecontrol.Ourexperiment, whichinvolvedtrialsonadrivingsimulator,had40participants.Objective performancedatawererecordedduringtrialsthattesteddrivers'reactionstoavariety oftrafficsituations.Afterthetrials,thedriverswereaskedtorespondtoaseriesof verbalandwrittenquestions.Inthischapter,wepresentthetheoreticaland methodologicalframeworkofourstudy,themodelsunderlyingourapproach,our analysismethodandsomepreliminaryresults.Wealsodiscusstheutilityofour approachforassessingdriverbehaviour.
