SITUATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND TURN-SIGNALLING

TURN-SIGNALLING WAS CHOSEN AS AN AREA OF DRIVER BEHAVIOR WORTHY OF INTENSIVE STUDY. IN THIS PAPER, THE TURN- SIGNALLING BEHAVIOR OF 10,467 DRIVERS WHO TURNED AT SEVEN DIFFERENT INTERSECTIONS DURING DAYLIGHT HOURS IN THE GREATER LANSING AREA WAS RELATED TO VARIOUS SITUATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS SUCH AS TYPE OF INTERSECTION, DIRECTION OF TURN, PRESENCE OF FOLLOWING TRAFFIC, ETC. THE MAJOR FINDINGS WERE: (1) TURN-SIGNALLING WAS SIGNIFICANTLY INFLUENCED BY TYPE OF INTERSECTION, (2) FEMALE DRIVERS GENERALLY SIGNALLED MORE FREQUENTLY THAN MALE DRIVERS AND BOTH GENERALLY SIGNALLED LEFT TURNS MORE FREQUENTLY THAN RIGHT TURNS, (3) TURN-SIGNALLING BEHAVIOR WAS NOT RELATED TO TIME OF DAY, PRESENCE OF PRECEDING TRAFFIC AND/OR FOLLOWING TRAFFIC, OR THE SIGNALLING BEHAVIOR OF THE PRECEDING CAR. /AUTHOR/

• Record URL:
  • http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/hrbbulletin/172/172-005.pdf
• Supplemental Notes:
  • No 172, pp 95-103, 4 TAB Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
• Authors:
  • Barch, Abram M
  • Nangle, John
  • Trumbo, Don
• Publication Date: 1958

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: 9p
• Monograph Title: Driver Characteristic and Behavior Studies
• Serial:
  • Highway Research Board Bulletin
  • Issue Number: 172
  • Publisher: Highway Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Drivers; Gender; Intersections; Left turns; Right turns; Turn signals
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00222978
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Apr 28 1994 12:00AM