HUMAN FACTORS REQUIREMENTS FOR REAL-TIME MOTORIST INFORMATION DISPLAYS. VOLUME 14. POINT DIVERSION FOR SPECIAL EVENTS: FIELD STUDIES

The report documents route diversion field studies conducted in Dallas, Texas to validate primary candidate real-time messages and static route guidance trailblazer signs resulting from the Task B human factors laboratory studies. Included in the report are discussion of the conceptual design, the research approach, the individual methodology employed, and analysis of results.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also Volume 15, PB81-173742.
• Corporate Authors:

  Texas Transportation Institute

  Texas A&M University System, 1600 E Lamar Boulevard
  Arlington, TX  United States  76011

  Federal Highway Administration

  Traffic Systems Division, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Weaver, G D
  • Richards, S H
  • Hatcher, D R
  • Dudek, C L
• Publication Date: 1978-8

Media Info

• Pagination: 100 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communication; Design; Driver information systems; Drivers; Field studies; Freeways; Guidelines; Human factors; Human factors engineering; Information display systems; Radio; Real time control; Real time data processing; Reviews; Special events; Traffic control; Traffic signals; Traffic signs; Transportation planning; Vision
• Geographic Terms: Texas
• Old TRIS Terms: Display devices; Displays; Traffic planning for special events; Traffic sign design; Visual communication
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00328989
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-RD-78- 18 Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: DOT-HS-11-8505
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: May 21 1981 12:00AM