汽車駕駛模擬器除了能從傳統的道路交通安全之角度，探討人、車、路及環境間之相互關係外，亦能夠協助發展交通事故鑑定與預防之工作。國外汽車駕駛模擬系統已具有許多著名之系統，於人因工程、交通工程、交通安全、智慧型運輸系統等課題之研究，亦有相當之研究成果於國際上發表。而國內汽車駕駛模擬系統發展始具雛形，已逐漸啟動以汽車駕駛模擬系統從事交通運輸領域之研究及國內本土化之交通課題探討。
　　近十年來我國的交通事故件數居高不下，年年皆有兩千五百件到三千五百多件，這些交通事故不僅造成個人及家庭的負擔，更是社會有限醫療資源及國家生產力的損失，交通安全乃成為國人相當重視之課題。吾人應亟思如何從事故的發生原因加以瞭解後進而加以有效地預防，但是事故成因不易從事故還原成現場實驗取得，而駕駛模擬系統便成為研究交通事故成因之最佳工具。
　　為了提高汽車駕駛模擬系統之真實感，本研究針對軟硬體進行重新規劃與更新，著眼於增加模擬環境的真實性及駕駛模擬系統未來之擴充性。利用嶄新之3D技術及程式設計，建構栩栩如生之道路環境以及道路應有之交通特性，包括動態車流及路口號誌管制等。
實例應用課題規劃係考量人、車、路三者互動關係之研究，選擇適當之車路系統、交通運輸環境及情境作為研究範例。實例研究以交通標誌尺寸大小及牌面顏色之不同對駕駛人操作影響程度為研究，經由統計分析之結果可知放大及改變顏色後之速限標誌具有數項優點，可提前瞭解標誌資訊進而增加反應距離及反應時間，且在操作車輛的同時駕駛人亦不易遭受外在交通狀況及其他不當駕駛車輛之干擾而影響本身駕駛行為，此結果將有助於事故預防之推展。

　　The driving simulation system (DS) not only aids studying the mutual inteactions between human, vehicles, and environment, but is helpful to prevent and appraise traffic accidents. There are many kinds of DS systems with various applications around the world. In our nation, enhancing DS for local issues is becoming popular.
　　More than 2500 traffic accidents occur each year in the past decade. This situction contributes to a large amount of social cost, such as medical resources waste and nation productivity loss. The key to resolve this problem is to understand what factors matter traffic accidents. As a result prevention activities can be established. Since we can hardly gather ideal amount of field data from actual accidents and consequently, the DS system becomes a very useful tool to study nelevant factors.
　　Several improvements were made to increase the reality in DS system. A brand new 3D technology employed is to construct animated traffic system, such as dynamic traffic flow and intersection signal control. Also, this system is enlargeable for potential application.
The experimental scenario includes proper vehicle-road system and traffic environment to verify specific traffic accident issues. The case study examines how the size and color of the speed limit sign influences on driver behavior. The experiment concludes that enlarging the sign is benefitial to reaction time and distance. Furthermore, it is less likely for drivers to be affected by inappropriate traffic situations. The results would be very useful to accident prevention.

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