Development of a human factors road safety assessment tool: interim report

The report first presents a definition of human factors, and a justification of why it is important to explicitly consider such human element issues on the Highways Agency (HA) network (based largely on the number of highway accidents that have human error as a contributory factor). It then describes the human factors data collected during a comprehensive literature review, the human factors principles developed from this data, and the matrix structure used to display the principles (Phase A). Following that, it presents a review of existing HA design guidelines for the design of highways, highlighting gaps and conflicts between these documents and human factors principles. Then, the report proceeds to Phase B: a human factors assessment of a current HA site, including making suggestions to improve safety at this site based on the principles developed in Phase A. Finally, all the work to date is tied together by summarising the key findings and implications, and making recommendations for project continuation.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.trl.co.uk/reports-publications/report/?reportid=6252
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/9781846086748
• Corporate Authors:

  TRL Limited

  Wokingham, Berkshire  United Kingdom 
• Authors:
  • Basacik, D
  • Luke, T
  • Horberry, T
• Publication Date: 2007-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 119p
• Serial:
  • Issue Number: PPR275

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Evaluation; Highway design; Highway safety; Human factors; Intersections; Traffic safety; Types of roads by network
• Uncontrolled Terms: Road safety (engineering and vehicles); Road safety (human factors)
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• ATRI Terms: Crash countermeasure; Evaluation; Human factors; Intersection; Road design; Road network; Road safety
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01387412
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 9781846086748
• Files: ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 22 2012 10:24PM