LINKS BETWEEN DRIVER BEHAVIOUR AND ROAD SAFETY AND DESIGN

The paper is composite of a number of talks given to groups interested, but not directly involved, in the human aspects of road safety. It explores the inter-relationship between human factors, road safety and traffic engineering. It makes the point that motorists when they drive and traffic engineers when they design are each trying to satisfy a set of often diverse objectives. Only the road safety engineer can be rather single minded in his planning. A particular lesson put by the paper is that drivers are human beings and therefore likely to attempt to optimise their own gains, make mistakes and hold attitudes other than those that designers and policy makers might find reasonable. This could only be accommodated through careful and thoughtful design and a strong duty of care to the errant population. The paper discusses why people drive, how they drive, their characteristics as drivers, traffic, roads, safety, costs, people other than drivers and planning.

• Corporate Authors:

  ARRB

  Melbourne, Victoria  Australia 
• Authors:
  • Lay, M G
• Publication Date: 1984-8

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References;
• Pagination: 23 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Costs; Drivers; Highway design; Highway planning; Highway safety; Human characteristics; Human factors; Pedestrians; Traffic; Traffic engineering
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver characteristics; Relationships
• Old TRIS Terms: Traffic planning
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00450134
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: AIR 000-215, HS-038 382
• Files: HSL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Nov 30 1985 12:00AM