000063109 001__ 63109 000063109 005__ 20231023123339.0 000063109 0248_ $$2sideral$$a101223 000063109 037__ $$aART-2017-101223 000063109 041__ $$aeng 000063109 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0002-6596-2978$$aLucas-Alba, Antonio$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000063109 245__ $$aCar-following techniques: reconsidering the role of the human factor 000063109 260__ $$c2017 000063109 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000063109 5203_ $$aKeeping correct distance between vehicles is a fundamental tenet in road traffic. New road signs and markings appearing on motorways aid drivers in determining this distance. However, the ‘Nagoya experiment’ (Sugiyama et al., 2008) revealed correct distance made following safe while also eventually destabilizing traffic flow. When traffic becomes dense, most drivers keep the minimum safety distance and brake when the vehicle ahead decelerates. The resultant chain reaction along the entire line of closely following vehicles causes for no apparent reason a traffic stoppage, known as a ‘phantom’ or ‘shockwave’ jam. The car-following models of Sugiyama et al. found certain speeds, traffic densities, and inter-vehicular distances combined to congest traffic. Drawing upon these and other phenomena (e.g., wave movement in Nature), car following by Driving to keep Inertia (DI) was conceived by us as an alternative to Driving to keep Distance (DD). Three studies explored possible prevention of ‘phantom’ jams by adopting DI. Using a driving simulator, affective and behavioural measures were taken (N=113). The results comparing the efficiency of DI vs. DD are summarized. DI promoted a more stable driver trajectory, in cognitive-affective and behavioural terms, and lowered fuel consumption by about 20%. 000063109 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby-nc-nd$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 000063109 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 000063109 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0003-2160-7509$$aBlanch, Maria T.$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000063109 700__ $$aBellés, Teresa 000063109 700__ $$aFerruz, Ana M. 000063109 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0003-3793-669X$$aHernando, Ana$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000063109 700__ $$aMelchor, Óscar M. 000063109 700__ $$aDelgado, Luis C. 000063109 700__ $$aRuiz, Francisco 000063109 700__ $$aChóliz, Mariano 000063109 7102_ $$14009$$2730$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Psicología y Sociología$$cÁrea Psicología Básica 000063109 773__ $$g4 (2017), 47-56$$pProc. Hum. Factors Ergon. Soc. Europe Chapter ... Annu. Conf.$$tProceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Europe Chapter ... Annual Conference$$x2333-4959 000063109 85641 $$uhttp://www.hfes-europe.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Lucas-Alba2017.pdf$$zTexto completo de la revista 000063109 8564_ $$s1062658$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/63109/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yVersión publicada 000063109 8564_ $$s75940$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/63109/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yVersión publicada 000063109 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:63109$$particulos$$pdriver 000063109 951__ $$a2023-10-23-12:20:20 000063109 980__ $$aARTICLE