Travel Choice Simulation Laboratory

Competitive advantage

• Pioneering work to study individual and group behaviour, and interactions with autonomous systems and data
• Interdisciplinary collaboration with world-leading researchers in travel choice, econometrics, experimental economics, simulation and transport network analysis
• The laboratory is portable, which brings significant potential for international collaboration and allows experiments to be conducted anywhere there is a high-speed internet connection

Impact

• Working towards safer, more efficient road transport systems

Successful applications

• Understand driver choices in autonomous vehicles (Insurer)
• Address the human factors critical to the successful deployment of automated vehicles (Australian Research Council linkage with government agencies, insurance companies and university partners)

Capabilities and facilities

• Eye-tracking and psycho-physiological monitoring equipment
• Five driving simulators and one bicycle simulator, all interconnected and able to interact with driving simulators at a partner university
• Fully instrumented vehicle that can be controlled remotely

Our partners

• Google
• United States Department of Transp