GETTING THE MESSAGE ACROSS. SYSTEMS OF COMMUNICATION WITH DRIVER

The author discusses the following aspects: operation of police motorway control room, including procedures and terminal equipment; motorway electrical equipment with terminals in police control rooms, i.e. emergency telephones; closed circuit TV cameras; automatic incident detection; fog, ice and wind instruments; matrix signals; emergency signing to deal with unforeseen incidents including lane and carriageway closures and restrictions on the Severn Bridge which has its own special problems; motorway signalling systems covering the history of various installations, the problems which police have experienced, their efficiency in connection with driver observance, defects in the systems, problems which have occurred with design, experiments with alternatives carried out in recent years and some suggestions for the future. (TRRL)

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was presented during Seminar H, Highway Construction and Maintenance at PTRC's 11th Annual Summer Meeting, Sussex University, England, 4-7 July 1983.
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• Authors:
  • Harris, P
• Conference:
  • Planning & Transport Res & Comp, Sum Ann Mtg, Proc
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 57-65

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Black ice; Call boxes; Closed circuit television; Communications; Conferences; Detection and identification; Detectors; Driver information systems; Emergencies; Equipment; Fog; Freeways; Ice; Lane closure; Near midair crashes; Police; Street closure; Telephone; Television; Traffic control; Traffic signals; Traffic signs; Wind
• ITRD Terms: 2567: Black ice; 8525: Conference; 9115: Detection; 2184: Emergency; 3674: Equipment; 2547: Fog; 2752: Motorway; 1642: Near miss; 1522: Police; 637: Road closure; 390: Telephone; 6949: Television; 654: Traffic control; 553: Traffic sign; 565: Traffic signal; 2554: Wind
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Security and Emergencies; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00382649
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0-86050-112-4
• Report/Paper Numbers: Volume P240
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: May 30 1984 12:00AM