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Human Factors for Highway Engineers
Contributor(s): Fuller, R. (Editor), Santos, J. A. (Editor)
ISBN: 0080434126     ISBN-13: 9780080434124
Publisher: Pergamon
OUR PRICE:   $170.99  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: February 2002
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Annotation: Humans are highly mobile but at a price: over a million people are killed annually on the road, at least 30 times as many are injured, of whom 1 in 10 may be permanently disabled. How can we design a road or highway or transport system so as to provide both a high level of mobility and a high level of safety?

For too long, from the perspective of the road user, highway engineers have had to employ their intuitions, personal experiences, shared 'know-how' and a 'wait-and-see' approach in many elements of highway design. Now the science of human behavior can provide both fundamental knowledge and principles to enable matching roadway and transport system design to human strengths, limitations and variability in performance; an understanding of human contributory factors in accidents; and the undertaking of informed safety audits and reviews.
-- The first book ever to provide psychological knowledge and insight into human behavior on the road and how this can be integrated into highway engineering
-- Discusses the use of human factors to improve road safety
-- Demonstrates how highway design can increase safety and reduce risk
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Technology & Engineering | Civil - Highway & Traffic
- Transportation | Automotive - Driver Education
- Psychology | Industrial & Organizational Psychology
Dewey: 629.283
LCCN: 2001058569
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 7" W x 10" (1.81 lbs) 342 pages
 
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Humans are highly mobile but at a price: over a million people are killed annually on the road, at least 30 times as many are injured, of whom one in ten may be permanently disabled. How can we design a road or highway or transport system so as to provide both a high level of mobility and a high level of safety? For too long, from the perspective of the road user, highway engineers have had to employ their intuitions, personal experiences, shared know-how and a suck-it-and-see approach in many elements of highway design. Now the science of human behaviour can provide both fundamental knowledge and principles to enable matching roadway and transport system design to human strengths, limitations and variability in performance; an understanding of human contributory factors in accidents; and the undertaking of informed safety audits and reviews. This book aims to help you ask the right questions about the issues raised.