Simulator Methodology & Validity

Research treating the driving simulator itself as the object of study: whether its measurements and its training generalize to real driving.

What's here. Method work on the instrument: simulator_validity_fidelity (correspondence between simulated and on-road measures, motion-base and scenario fidelity, absolute versus relative validity), simulator_training_transfer (whether skill acquired in a simulator carries to the road or to another simulator), and simulator_sickness (incidence, screening, adaptation, dropout, mitigation). Also the surrounding protocol questions such as practice and adaptation procedures, drive duration, and how dropout is handled.

What isn't here.

• evaluations of driver training, education, and coaching programs, even when the program is delivered on a simulator — Training, Education & Intervention. The question here is whether simulator-acquired skill transfers at all; there it is whether a particular curriculum or intervention works.
• motion sickness and ride comfort in real vehicles, including passenger discomfort in automated driving — Vehicle Automation & ADAS. Sickness here means discomfort produced by the simulator apparatus, not by an actual moving vehicle.
• simulator studies whose subject is a driver population rather than the simulator, such as novice, learner, or older drivers and simulator-based fitness-to-drive assessment — Age & Experience. Simulators are the workhorse method across most of this reference; a paper lands here only when the method itself is what is being validated or characterized.