1st Edition
Designing Safe Road Systems A Human Factors Perspective
192 Pages
by
CRC Press
192 Pages
by
CRC Press
192 Pages
by
CRC Press
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Many books focus on individual differences and how those relate to traffic safety such as accident proneness, gender differences, age, alcohol, and the effects of drugs. Others focus on the safety effects regarding the vehicle such as airbags, anti-lock brakes, navigation systems, intelligent cruise control and other new gadgets coming to the vehicle. Even though these topics are undoubtedly... Read more
Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Self-explaining roads and traffic system; Resilience to failure and breakdown; The performance of road users: hierarchical task levels; Workload management; Information carriers meet basic ergonomic principles; Individual information elements are consistent and uniform within their context; Risk averse side effects of measures; Motivational aspects; Variation in performance; Communicating with the road user; Summary and conclusions; Index.
Biography
Jan Theeuwes, Richard van der Horst
’This is a book which has proved to be a very valuable source of information for me and will certainly aid many more transport psychology / ergonomics researchers. It would not be far-fetched to say that Designing Safe Road Systems: A Human Factor Perspective has the potential to act as a key reference for transport engineering or similar modules at undergraduate or postgraduate levels. It serves the need for numerous researchers to develop a systemic view of the road and in doing so explains the effects of road design on driving behaviour and uses this understanding to put forward ways to design so-called smart roads.’ Ergonomics, Vol 56 No 2, 2013
