Positive Guidance: A Low Cost High Payoff Approach to Safety and Traffic Management

Positive Guidance represents an approach to enhancing the safety and operational efficiency of hazardous locations by optimizing the highway information system. It integrates human factors research findings with highway and traffic engineering principles to develop information responsive to driver attributes and location characteristics. Positive Guidance is based on the premise that enhanced information display reduces driver errors, thereby reducing accidents and inefficient operations. Presently, a series of demonstration projects are implementing Positive Guidance at a number of rural and urban problem locations ranging from narrow bridges to freeway lane drops. This paper details Positive Guidance. It delineates the procedure in terms of the steps used to analyze the problems and generate solutions. It shows how improvements to the information system are developed to convey the operational characteristics of a site, when needed, where required, and in a form best suited to drivers. Finally, it describes how Positive Guidance has influenced traffic and safety programs by providing short range, high payoff solution at relatively low cost.

• Corporate Authors:

  Gower Publishing Company

  Gower House, Croft Road
  Aldershot, Hampshire  United Kingdom  GU11 3HR
• Authors:
  • Lunenfeld, Harold
• Conference:
  • Transport Research for Social and Economic Progress. Proceedings of the Second World Conference on Transport Research
  • Location: London , England
  • Date: 1980-4-14 to 1980-4-17
• Publication Date: 1981

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 2586-2603
• Monograph Title: Transport Research for Social and Economic Progress

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Driver information systems; Hazards; High risk locations; Highway engineering; Highway operations; Highway traffic control; Human factors; Traffic engineering; Traffic safety
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01082992
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 21 2007 7:57AM