Zeynep Murat, who is at the stage of her doctoral program in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Middle East Technical University, was decided unanimously to be assigned to METU, in accordance with the opinion of the thesis advisor, for 89 days between 30.05.2022 - 26.08.2022 as a paid-leave due to the problems experienced in the field research, planned face-to-face interviews and driver simulation experiments within the scope of her doctoral thesis during the pandemic process, in order to continue data collection studies that will provide input to simulation programs and to carry out driver simulation experiments including samples from the city of Ankara due to the problems