New approaches to simulation and the older operator

This special issue reports on papers presented at a symposium devoted to driving simulation research and applications concerning driver behavior and transportation system safety with emphasis on the older driver. This special issue is patterned after two previous special issues and reports on a third symposium held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab and United States Department of Transportation’s New England University Transportation Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The papers presented here range from typical highway, vehicle and traffic engineering, to the assessment of driver behavior and include considerations of roadway complexity, cognition and attention, training, fatigue, medical conditions and simulator side effects.