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Human Factors for Highway Engineers

By: R. Fuller (Editor), J.A. Santos (Editor)

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Hardcover | 6 February 2002

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Humans are highly mobile but at a price: over a million people are killed annually on the road, at least 30 times as many are injured, of whom 1 in 10 may be permanently disabled. How can we design a road or highway or transport system so as to provide both a high level of mobility and a high level of safety?

For too long, from the perspective of the road user, highway engineers have had to employ their intuitions, personal experiences, shared 'know-how' and a 'wait-and-see' approach in many elements of highway design. Now the science of human behavior can provide both fundamental knowledge and principles to enable matching roadway and transport system design to human strengths, limitations and variability in performance; an understanding of human contributory factors in accidents; and the undertaking of informed safety audits and reviews.
-- The first book ever to provide psychological knowledge and insight into human behavior on the road and how this can be integrated into highway engineering
-- Discusses the use of human factors to improve road safety
-- Demonstrates how highway design can increase safety and reduce risk

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Non-Fiction Education Engineering & Technology Civil Engineering Highway & Traffic Engineering Psychology Social Psychology Occupational & Industrial Psychology Religion & Beliefs Religion Transportation Road & Motor Vehicles in General

Self-Help, Personal Development & Practical Advice Roadcraft & Driving

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
The System: Road and Road User
Psychology and the highway engineer	p. 1
Multiple perspectives	p. 11
Ergonomics of driver's interface with the road environment: the contribution of psychological research	p. 23
Learning and the road user	p. 43
A study of subjective road categorization and driving behaviour	p. 59
The Driver from a Psychological Perspective
Human factors and driving	p. 77
Visual factors in driving	p. 99
Perception of road users' motion	p. 115
Sampling information from the road environment	p. 131
Some insights on how to work with human error in traffic behaviour	p. 147
Mental workload	p. 161
Learning and driving: an incomplete but continuing story	p. 177
Behavioural adaptation and drivers' task control	p. 189
Social psychological principles: 'the group inside the person'	p. 201
Special Categories of Road User
Young pedestrians and young cyclists	p. 217
The psychology of the young driver	p. 241
Road users who are elderly: drivers and pedestrians	p. 255
Advanced Transport Technology
A note on advanced transport technology	p. 277
Glossary	p. 283
References	p. 291
Subject index	p. 311
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