THE ROLE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES IN TRAFFIC ENGINEERING

DE ROL VAN DE MENSSETENSCHAPPEN IN DE VERKEERSKINDE

Knowing the limits of human capacity and recognizing the required human actions are quantities in the field of technical knowledge, and not in the field of technical ability. They are subject to research and the study of the sciences devoted to human behaviour, the so-called gamma sciences. The traffic engineer occupies himself with planning, control and maintenance of the physical infrastructure of traffic. He bases his designs on scientifically founded knowledge of social and traffic problems, which should be provided by those who study human behaviour. /TRRL/

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• Corporate Authors:

  Royal Dutch Touring Club ANWB

  Wassenaarseweg 220, P.O. Box 93200
  The Hague,   Netherlands 
• Authors:
  • Volmuller, J
• Publication Date: 1975-10

Language

• Dutch

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 512-514
• Serial:
  • Verkeerskunde
  • Volume: 26
  • Issue Number: 10
  • Publisher: NWB BV/Royal Dutch Touring Club
  • ISSN: 0377-8495
  • Serial URL: http://www.verkeerskunde.nl

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Highway planning; Human factors; Maintenance management; Psychology; Social factors; Social sciences; Sociology; Traffic; Traffic control; Traffic engineering; Traffic engineers; Transportation
• Old TRIS Terms: Maintenance administration; Traffic planning
• ITRD Terms: 9001: Behaviour; 2257: Human factor; 1054: Network (traffic); 2255: Psychology; 2253: Sociology; 655: Traffic engineering
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; Society; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00132278
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 13 1976 12:00AM