How Drivers’ Physiological Response of Blood Pressure on Unsignalized Conventional Roundabout?

• Published in: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
• Main Author: Jainudin S.; Diah J.M.; Haron S.; Abdullah S.
• Format: Conference paper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH 2024
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85181976040&doi=10.1007%2f978-981-99-6026-2_27&partnerID=40&md5=103b60f4ae31a1b7b1a33229a35e026d

A roundabout is one of the components of a critical road network, which consists of a circular intersection with a smaller island in the middle. In Malaysia, the traffic that moves through this critical network usually moves in a clockwise direction, meaning that the priority of traffic would be given towards the vehicle inside the roundabout to move first. The focus of this research was to measure the physiological behaviour of each of the participants. By focusing on the inner side of the transportation system, which is the driver itself, we could build an innovation that would contribute to a better transportation system. The youth participants were those whose age was set at 20–30 years old. One of the accessible physiological behaviours of drivers is blood pressure, measured by using an OMRON Digital Wrist Blood Pressure Monitor. By studying these data, we could determine the way they conducted their driving approach during a real-life situation. Although various variables could affect their driving experience in real life in this study, the focus will be only on the blood pressure of drivers before, during, and after driving, including their driving speed. Analysis by using the regression method to obtain the r-squared value has been applied to determine the correlation level between both of the variables. By comparing the data of blood pressure of genders between entering, driving through, and exiting the roundabout, the highest R2 reading obtained was 0.8209 and 0.6779 for male and female drivers, respectively. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd 2024.