Jan Theeuwes, Richard Van Der Horst

Designing Safe Road Systems

A Human Factors Perspective

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The central theme of this book is how design principles can reduce the probability of an error while driving. The authors demonstrate how knowledge of human factors helps a road authority to better understand how road users behave. They argue that in many cases the design of the environment can be further adjusted to human capabilities, and that safety should be considered a system property to be built into the road system.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781409443889
• ISBN-10: 1409443884
• Artikelnr.: 45114326

Autorenporträt

Jan Theeuwes, Richard van der Horst

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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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.

Rezensionen

'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