A PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF DEVICES FOR PREVENTING LANE DRIFT AND RUN-OFF-ROAD ACCIDENTS

Accident data indicates that drowsiness play a substantial role in single-vehicle run-off-road accidents. Shoulder rumble strips were chosen on a concurrent research project as a means of alerting a drowsy driver of incipient departure from the roadway. The concurrent project provided three different types of rumble strips at four locations. Results indicated that paving asphalt-aggregate ribs produced the greatest arousal of a drowsy driver. However, in any case arousal did not last longer than about five minutes. Average angle of departure from the traveled way was about three degrees. All of these results are discussed relative to the run-off-road accident problem together with the use of different shoulder treatments as potential countermeasures.

• Corporate Authors:

  Human Factors Research, Incorporated

  6780 Cortona Drive
  Goleta, CA  United States  93017

  Federal Highway Administration

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  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  California Division of Highways

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  Sacramento, CA  United States  95814
• Authors:
  • O'Hanlon, J F
  • Kelley, G R
• Publication Date: 1974-9

Media Info

• Pagination: 114 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Countermeasures; Drowsiness; Electrocardiography; Electroencephalography; Evaluation; Galvanic skin response; Heart rate; Highway design; Highways; Personnel performance; Physiology; Prevention; Ran off road crashes; Recommendations; Road shoulders; Rumble strips; Safety; Safety equipment; Single vehicle crashes; Sleep; Traffic crashes
• Uncontrolled Terms: Experimental data; Motor vehicle accidents
• Old TRIS Terms: Arousal; Performance human
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Pavements; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00091423
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: TR-1736-F Final Rpt.
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jul 15 1975 12:00AM