Human factors guideline for safer road infrastructure
The human factors concept in relation to road safety, considers road features that influence right or wrong behaviour of the driver. It considers the causes of driver's operational error as the first step in a chain of actions, which may proceed to an accident. Many of the often observed operational errors result from the direct interaction between road characteristics and the driver's reaction characteristics. Because the driver's reaction characteristics cannot be changed, the attention should be focused on a self-explanatory road design. In these guidelines explain the relationship between several road features that trigger mostly unconscious wrong driving reactions. The detailed examples and sketches allow the engineer, to understand the relationship between undesirable road features and operational errors. They can be used as a kind of checklist in the "on-the-spot" investigation of accident points or in road safety inspections. They can also be used to qualify the planning and construction process in road safety audits.
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Corporate Authors:
World Road Association (PIARC). Technical Committee on Rural Roads and Earthworks (D.4)
Paris, FranceWorld Road Association (PIARC). Technical Committee on Road/Vehicle Interaction (C3.1)
, - Publication Date: 2008
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 111p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Behavior; Drivers; Errors; Highway design; Highway safety; Human factors; Infrastructure
- Uncontrolled Terms: Road safety (human factors)
- ATRI Terms: Driver behaviour; Error; Human factors; Infrastructure; Road design; Road safety; Safety audit
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01383646
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: ARRB
- ISBN: 2840602156
- Report/Paper Numbers: 2008R18
- Files: ATRI
- Created Date: Aug 22 2012 3:41PM