Designing safe road systems : a human factors perspective

✍ Scribed by Horst, Richard van der; Theeuwes, Jan

Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 190
Series: Human factors in road and rail transport
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

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.

✦ Subjects

Roads -- Design and construction -- Human factors;Roads -- Design and construction -- Safety measures;Traffic safety;Automobile drivers -- Psychology

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