Driver Workload Mutations Induced Road Analysis of Traffic Accidents in the Rural-Urban Continuum
According to the Chinese, central cities are experiencing a rural-urban continuum of malignant, accident-prone, and deteriorating road safety issues. In this paper, the city of Harbin is used as an example in which some road sections are chosen for continuous observation. Based on the urban-rural continuum, road conditions and traffic characteristics are examined, using engineering psychology and accident catastrophe theory. The main effects of traffic accidents ensure the impact on the drivers' workload in the road traffic accidents in central cities rural-urban continuum. Using the mutation theory to carry on the traffic accident analysis, the authors explain the drivers workload changes continuously due to the sudden increase in traffic accidents. It is helpful to raise the central cities' traffic safety level, and to reduce the big cities' traffic accidents rate.
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- Copyright © 2011 ASCE
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Corporate Authors:
American Society of Civil Engineers
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Authors:
- Li, Yan
- Li, Xiansheng
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Conference:
- Third International Conference on Transportation Engineering (ICTE)
- Location: Chengdu , China
- Date: 2011-7-23 to 2011-7-25
- Publication Date: 2011
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References;
- Pagination: pp 3274-3279
- Monograph Title: ICTE 2011
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Drivers; Human factors; Rural areas; Traffic crashes; Traffic safety; Urban areas
- Uncontrolled Terms: Workload (Drivers)
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01449410
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 9780784411841
- Files: TRIS, ASCE
- Created Date: Oct 18 2012 11:19AM