Human-Centered Intelligent Transport System ASSIST

One of the goals of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITSs) is to reduce traffic accidents and enhance safety. However, plenty of technologies for safe driving can not prevent traffic accidents, if a driver does not understand what safe driving is exactly. Thus, driver education is quite important even if ITSs spread. However, most educational methods about safe driving are subjective and lacking in concreteness. We have proposed safe driving theory based on a mechanism of collision and human cognitive characteristics. In this paper, we report an ASSIST, which stands for an Assistant System for Safe Driving by Informative Supervision and Training, and was created to prevent accidents based on our safe driving theory. The ASSIST uses sensors in a vehicle, computers, mobile phones and the Internet. We also report an experiment to investigate driving behaviors of commercial vehicle drivers by the use of ASSIST.