Gregoire has worked in the field of road and rail safety since 2007. In this time, his research is at the intersection of engineering, mathematics and human factors to improve the safety of road users. His main areas of expertise and interest include the modelling of driver behaviour in driving simulators and on roads, particularly when impaired. He has successfully led numerous research projects, particularly for the transport government and the rail industry.
Gregoire’s current research is focused on the development of new technology using Artificial Intelligence to automatically detect impaired driving. His current projects seek to understand the effects of alcohol or medicinal cannabis on driving performance in a driving simulator. These projects are stepping stones toward the automatic detection of alcohol and cannabis impairment using in-vehicle or roadside technology.
Membership
- Member of the Australasian Road Safety Conference Scientific Committee
- Member of the Australasian Road Safety Conference Interactive Workshop Sub-Committee
- Railway Level Crossing Committee, Transportation Research Board
Awards
- Best paper –Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, 2019
- Standards Australia Young Leaders Program for 2018/19 Award
- Australasian Centre for Rail Innovation Fellowship Award
- Best paper (co-author) – International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 2013
- Outstanding Thesis Award, QUT, 2010
- Nomination for the Peter Vulcan Award, Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, 2009
Research areas
- Road and Rail Safety
- Driver behaviour
- Human Factors
- Impaired driving
- Distracted driving
- Young drivers
Supervision:
- Driving impairment
- Injury prevention
- Driving simulations
- Driver attitudes and behaviours
- Quantitative and qualitative research methodologies
- Psychophysiology
Recent Publications
- Larue, G. S., & Watling, C. N. (2022). Prevalence and dynamics of distracted pedestrian behaviour at railway level crossings: Emerging issues. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 165, 106508. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2021.106508
- Wood, J. M., Atchison, D. A., Black, A. A., & Larue, G. S. (2022). Low levels of refractive blur increase the risk of colour misperception of red train signals. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 42(4), 872-878. https://doi.org/10.1111/opo.12979
- Rodwell, D., Bates, L., Larue, G. S., Watson, B., & Haworth, N. (2022). Parents’ self-efficacy and the quality of supervised driving practice they provide for their children. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 87, 189-202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2022.04.006
- Watling, C. N., Larue, G. S., Wood, J. M., & Black, A. (2022). An on-road examination of daytime and evening driving on rural roads: physiological, subjective, eye gaze, and driving performance outcomes. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84(2), 418-426. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02424-9
- Larue, G. S., & Naweed, A. (2021). Evaluating the effects of automated monitoring on driver non-compliance at active railway level crossings. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 163, 106432. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2021.106432
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Gregoire Larue's specialist areas of knowledge include road safety, driving impairment, simulated and field experiments, mixed method approaches, intervention evaluation and data modelling.