As part of his on-going research at the University of Auckland, Urie has developed a new efficient and scientifically robust method to evaluate our road systems using eye tracking technology.  This enables road authorities to efficiently assess a road section for:

• environmental clutter
• driver distractions
• how visible signage is
• how drivers experience a road
• do they miss important signs or warnings
• how to make regulatory and warning signs more conspicuous

Below is a sequence of a number of drivers evaluating the same scene showing the gaze fixations which can be displayed as

Figure 1: Fixation points

and also aggregated into heatmaps to see which features are fixated on the longest between various drivers.

 Figure 2: Gaze Heat Maps