TWO VIEWS OF MOTORIST BEHAVIOR IN RURAL FREEWAY CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE ZONES: THE DRIVER AND THE STATE HIGHWAY PATROLMAN
Ohio state highway patrolmen and drivers completed two separate questionnaires designed to assess problems related to driver behavior in road construction and maintenance (C&M) zones. The highway patrolmen saw driver inattention, excessive speed, and improper driver behaviors as major causes of accidents in C&M zones and stated that most problems occur in the taper area of lane closures. Patrolmen considered rear-end collisions to be the most typical accident in these zones. The driver questionnaire revealed that when making decisions about speed and lane changes in C&M zones, most drivers rely on their own judgment and cues from other vehicles rather than on signing. Implications of the findings for the design and placement of traffic control devices in C&M zones are discussed.
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Corporate Authors:
Human Factors Society
Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore, MD United States 21218 -
Authors:
- Gardner, D J
- Rockwell, T H
- Publication Date: 1983-8
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: p. 415-424
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Serial:
- Human Factors
- Volume: 25
- Issue Number: 4
- Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated
- ISSN: 0018-7208
- EISSN: 1547-8181
- Serial URL: http://hfs.sagepub.com/
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automobile drivers; Behavior; Cognition; Construction sites; Crash causes; Crash investigation; Design; Drivers; Highways; Human factors engineering; Human factors engineering; Human information processing; Lane changing; Lane closure; Location; Maintenance; Police traffic services; Psychology; Questionnaires; Ratings; Rear end crashes; Research; Speed; State government; Traffic control devices; Traffic crashes
- Old TRIS Terms: Behavioral research; Highway signs (Signals and markings); Highway systems; Lane closing; Placement; Traffic control sign location
- Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Operations and Traffic Management; Research; Safety and Human Factors; I73: Traffic Control; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00384790
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Engineering Index
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: May 30 1984 12:00AM