Jan Theeuwes, Richard Van Der Horst

Designing Safe Road Systems

A Human Factors Perspective

• Broschiertes 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9781138073760
• ISBN-10: 1138073768
• Artikelnr.: 53166883

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.