A STUDY OF ROADWAY DELINEATION SYSTEMS

THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY ARE TO DETERMINE THE DRIVER'S DELINEATION REQUIREMENTS DURING VARIOUS TRAFFIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS, ESTABLISH TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DELINEATION TREATMENTS, TEST SOME OF THE MORE PROMISING DELINEATION SYSTEMS, AND DEVELOP PRACTICAL CRITERIA FOR THE SELECTION OF DELINEATION TREATMENT SYSTEMS. THIS PAPER DESCRIBES THE TECHNIQUES UTILIZED IN THE REVIEW OF PAST AND CURRENT RESEARCH, THE ASSESSMENT OF CURRENT PRACTICES IN THE VARIOUS STATES AND SELECTED FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND THE STRUCTURING OF INFORMATION. PARTICULARLY RELEVANT FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS DERIVED FROM THIS COMPILATION ARE ENUMERATED. THE DEFINITION OF DRIVER'S DELINEATION REQUIREMENTS THROUGH INFORMATION- DECISION-ACTION MODELS IS DESCRIBED. THE IDA ANALYSES ARE USED TO TRANSFORM THE DRIVER PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS TO INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS: I.E., ACTIONS REQUIRED TO EFFECT THE DESIRED PERFORMANCE, DECISIONS REQUIRED TO EFFECT THE ACTIONS, AND INFORMATION REQUIRED TO ELICIT THE DESIRED DECISIONS AND ACTIONS ARE IDENTIFIED. /AUTHOR/

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  http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/sr/sr107/107-009.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Highway Research Board (HRB)

  Washington, DC   
• Authors:
  • Taylor, James I
• Conference:
  • Second Western Summer Meeting
  • Location: Salt Lake City Utah, United States
  • Date: 1969-8-11 to 1969-8-13
• Publication Date: 1970

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: pp 81-88
• Monograph Title: Highway safety
• Serial:
  • Highway Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 107
  • Publisher: Highway Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Decision making; Driver performance; Drivers; Evaluation; Highway delineators; Highway design; Information dissemination; Personnel performance; Test procedures
• Old TRIS Terms: Highway delineation
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00225733
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jul 21 1970 12:00AM