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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807864703321

Autore

Theeuwes Jan <1960->

Titolo

Designing safe road systems : a human factors perspective / / Jan Theeuwes, Richard van der Horst

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton : , : CRC Press, , 2017

ISBN

1-317-15214-X

1-315-57673-2

1-317-15213-1

1-280-87705-7

9786613718365

1-4094-4389-2

Edizione

[1st.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 p.)

Collana

Human factors in road and rail transport

Disciplina

625.7028/9

Soggetti

Highway planning

Highway planning - Netherlands

Motor vehicle drivers

Motor vehicle drivers - Netherlands

Traffic safety

Traffic safety - Netherlands

Roads - Safety measures

Roads - Netherlands - Safety measures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: Farnham: Ashgate, 2012.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; 1 Introduction; 2 Self-Explaining Roads and Traffic System; 3 Resilience to Failure and Breakdown; 4 The Performance of Road Users: Hierarchical Task Levels; 7 Individual Information Elements are Consistent and Uniform within Their Context; 8 Risk and Adverse Side Effects of Measures; 9 Motivational Aspects; 10 Variation in Performance; 11 Communicating with the Road User; 12 Summary and Conclusions; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The central theme of this book is how design principles can reduce the probability of an error while driving. The authors demonstrate how



knowledge of human factors helps a road authority to better understand how road users behave. They argue that in many cases the design of the environment can be further adjusted to human capabilities, and that safety should be considered a system property to be built into the road system.