Toward Safe Systems: Traffic Safety, Cognition, and the Built Environment
Conventional transportation practice attributes traffic crashes to human error, leading to the prevailing assumption that crash prevention is principally an outcome of driver education and law enforcement programs. But what if planning and urban design decisions induce human errors? In this study, we examine the literature in organizational systems safety, cognitive psychology, and behavioral economics to detail how cognitive interpretations of the built environment may produce the errors that result in traffic crashes. We proceed to examine crash incidence in Charlotte-Mecklenberg County in light of this cognitive framework and discuss its implications for research and practice.
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Supplemental Notes:
- © The Author(s) 2020.
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Authors:
- Dumbaugh, Eric
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0000-0002-5254-9711
- Saha, Dibakar
- Merlin, Louis
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0000-0002-9267-5712
- Publication Date: 2024-3
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: References;
- Pagination: pp 75-87
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Serial:
- Journal of Planning Education and Research
- Volume: 44
- Issue Number: 1
- Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated
- ISSN: 0739-456X
- EISSN: 1552-6577
- Serial URL: http://jpe.sagepub.com/
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Built environment; Cognition; Human factors in crashes; Literature reviews; Traffic crashes; Urban design
- Geographic Terms: North Carolina
- Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01847795
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jun 1 2022 9:20AM