Human Factors in Traffic Safety for Highway and Traffic Engineers
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Product details:
- Publisher Elsevier
- Date of Publication 1 July 2025
- ISBN 9780443404276
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages330 pages
- Size 228x152 mm
- Weight 450 g
- Language English 700
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Long description:
Human Factors in Traffic Safety for Highway and Traffic Engineers provides human factors principles and findings to allow nonexperts to consider the road user’s capabilities and limitations more effectively into the practice of design, operations, and safety. It provides data and insights on the needs, capabilities, and limitations of road users, including perception and effects of visual demands, cognition, and influence of expectations on driving behavior. It bridges the gap between human factors research and practical application, presenting complex psychological insights in an accessible manner.
This book begins with Part 1 explaining the significance of the traffic safety problem and giving an overview of the importance of human factors in highway design and traffic engineering. Part 2 focuses on driver information perception and processing, including perception of depth and speed, driver’s visual search, how road users search for information, and how mental and information load affects drivers’ performance. Part 3 provides results of investigations of traffic crash causation and reviews major driver errors. Part 4 then describes key principles of road users’ considerations during highway design and traffic operation. Finally, Part 5 focuses on safety analysis and assessment and describes in detail the existing methods to evaluate human factors during safety assessments.
This is a valuable resource for professionals in highway and traffic engineering, researchers, policymakers, urban planners, and students to understand how human factors contribute to traffic incidents and how to mitigate these through design and operational strategies.
Table of Contents:
Part 1. Highway Safety Problem Overview
Chapter 1. Traffic Crashes in the U.S.A
Chapter 2. National Strategies for Traffic Safety Improvements
Chapter 3. Human Factors Overview and Relations to Highway Design and Traffic Control
Part 2. Driver Information Perception and Processing
Chapter 4. Human Sensory and Perceptual System
Chapter 5. Driving-Related Visual Functions
Chapter 6. Drivers’ Perception of Depth and Motion
Chapter 7. Drivers’ Visual Search
Chapter 8. Driver Information Processing, Attention, and Mental Workload
Chapter 9. Driver Information Load
Part 3. Traffic Crashes Causation
Chapter 10. Overview of Traffic Crash Causes
Chapter 11. Driver-Related Crash Associated Factors
Chapter 12. Driver Fatigue
Chapter 13. Major Crash Types Contributory Factors
Part 4. Road Users and Engineering Design
Chapter 14. Positive Design Guide.
Chapter 15. Expectancy.
Chapter 16. Self-Explaining Roads.
Chapter 17. Human Factors Key Requirements for Safe Road System Design.
Part 5. Traffic Safety Evaluation
Chapter 18. Overview of the Safety Assessment Techniques
Chapter 19. Risk Factors Identification
Chapter 20. Road Safety Evaluation Based on Human Factors
References
Appendices
Appendix A. Look-Up Tables of Information Load Values for Typical Signs
Appendix B. Traffic Conflict Techniques for Safety and Operations. Observers Manual
Appendix C. Operating Speed Equations
Appendix D. Prompt List - Existing Road Audit
Appendix E. PIARC Road Safety Evaluation Based on Human Factors Method
Appendix F. Modified Method for Road Safety Evaluation Based on Human Factors. Samples of Safety Assessments
