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Virtual Reality as a technology that helps to educate and change attitudes of learning drivers toward safety at level crossings

Technical solutions as part of an education programme to raise the awareness of risks, encourage safe behaviours, and increase safety at level crossings is very important for accident prevention. Young people widely use modern technology. Therefore, it should be helpful to enrich traditional learning methods with modern ones, employing the same technological means with which the young are familiar. The presentation focuses on improving traffic safety at level crossings in Croatia by targeting a vulnerable category of road users and applying virtual reality (VR) technology to influence their future behaviour. We created a VR application, "Driving across the level crossing", for the education of learner drivers and young drivers. The main purpose of this application is to allow learner drivers to experience the consequences of safely and risky driving across a level crossing in virtual reality. The idea was to use new learning techniques closer to new generations than traditional learning from the book. The present study examined whether a new accident prevention programme for level crossings involving a lecture and virtual reality application with an immersive 360° video can significantly influence the risky attitudes and the intended future behaviour of young learner drivers. The technology was integrated into a traffic education programme implemented in driving schools developed within a national level crossing safety project in Croatia.

level crossings ; Virtual Reality ; learning drivers ; safety

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