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Author Theeuwes, Jan

Title Designing Safe Road Systems : a Human Factors Perspective
Published Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (190 pages)
Series Human Factors in Road and Rail Transport
Human factors in road and rail transport.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Highway planning.
Highway planning -- Netherlands
Motor vehicle drivers.
Motor vehicle drivers -- Netherlands
Traffic safety.
Traffic safety -- Netherlands
Roads -- Safety measures.
Roads -- Netherlands -- Safety measures
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Safety.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Civil -- Highway & Traffic.
Highway planning
Motor vehicle drivers
Roads -- Safety measures
Traffic safety
Netherlands
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Horst, Richard van der.
Kuiken, Maria
LC no. 2012004145
ISBN 9781409443896
1409443892
9781409443889
1409443884
9781315576732
1315576732
9781280877056
1280877057