Designing safe road systems : a human factors perspective / Jan Theeuwes, Richard van der Horst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Theeuwes, Jan, 1960- author.

Horst, Richard van der, author.

Series:

Human factors in road and rail transport.

Human factors in road and rail transport

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Highway planning.

Highway planning--Netherlands.

Motor vehicle drivers.

Motor vehicle drivers--Netherlands.

Traffic safety.

Traffic safety--Netherlands.

Roads--Safety measures.

Roads.

Roads--Netherlands--Safety measures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 p.)

Edition:

1st.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2017.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: Farnham: Ashgate, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-317-15214-X

1-315-57673-2

1-317-15213-1

1-280-87705-7

9786613718365

1-4094-4389-2

9781315576732

OCLC:

798536401