Interface Design: The Next Major Advance in Road Safety

Road safety initiatives over the years have been heralded by concepts such as behavioral issues, new safety features in vehicles, and road improvement projects. These have progressively reduced the road toll by targeting high priority issues, but without new directions the initiatives may have diminishing returns over time. Furthermore, it is well known to engineers that holistic and system wide approaches such as Vision Zero are fundamentally more powerful as they target elimination with a coordinated approach to the problem rather than progressive reduction with isolated actions. This paper identifies the concept of Interface Design (ID) as a potential catalyst for the next major advances in road safety. ID is a holistic approach which encourages players in the development of systems to consider all possible interfaces of their project. The authors show some examples of interface design and in the process hope to highlight how this design and engineering approach represents a new frontier.

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• Authors:
  • Rechnitzer, George
  • Richardson, Shane
  • Shifman, Maxwell
  • Short, Andrew
• Publication Date: 2009-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Photos; References;
• Pagination: pp 14-23
• Serial:
  • Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety
  • Volume: 20
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Australasian College of Road Safety
  • ISSN: 1832-9497

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Safety programs; Traffic safety
• Identifier Terms: Interface Design; Vision Zero
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01159921
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Jun 30 2010 6:53AM