Designing Safe Road Systems : a Human Factors Perspective.

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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 f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Theeuwes, Jan
Otros Autores: Horst, Richard van der, Kuiken, Maria
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2012.
Colección:Human factors in road and rail transport.
Temas:
Highway planning.
Highway planning > Netherlands.
Motor vehicle drivers.
Motor vehicle drivers > Netherlands.
Traffic safety.
Traffic safety > Netherlands.
Roads > Safety measures.
Roads > Netherlands > Safety measures.
Routes > Planification.
Routes > Planification > Pays-Bas.
Sécurité routière.
Sécurité routière > Pays-Bas.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Safety.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Civil > Highway & Traffic.
Highway planning
Motor vehicle drivers
Roads > Safety measures
Traffic safety
Netherlands
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; 1 Introduction; 2 Self-Explaining Roads and Traffic System; 3 Resilience to Failure and Breakdown; 4 The Performance of Road Users: Hierarchical Task Levels; 7 Individual Information Elements are Consistent and Uniform within Their Context; 8 Risk and Adverse Side Effects of Measures; 9 Motivational Aspects; 10 Variation in Performance; 11 Communicating with the Road User; 12 Summary and Conclusions; Index.

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