Fuller R., Santos J.A. (Eds.) Human Factors for Highway Engineers

Pergamon, Amsterdam, 2002, 325 p., ISBN10: 0080434126, ISBN13: 9780080434124Humans 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 one in ten 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 "suck-it-and-see" approach in many elements of highway design. Now the science of human behaviour 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. This book aims to help you ask the right questions about the issues raised.The system: road and road user
Psychology and the highway engineer
Multiple perspectives
Ergonomics of driver's interface with the road environment: the contribution of psychological research
Learning and the road user
A study of subjective road categorization and driving behaviourThe driver from a psychological perspective
Human factors and driving
Visual factors in driving
Perception of road users' motion
Sampling information from the road environment
Some insights on how to work with human error in traffic behaviour
Mental workload
Learning and driving: an incomplete but continuing story
Behavioural adaptation and drivers' task control
Social psychological principles: 'the group inside the person'Special categories of road user
Young pedestrians and young cyclists
The psychology of the young driver
Road users who are elderly: drivers and pedestriansAdvanced transport technology
A note on advanced transport technology