Human factors in traffic safety for highway and traffic engineers /
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Amsterdam :
Elsevier,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Human Factors in Traffic Safety for Highway and Traffic Engineers
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About the author
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Highway safety problem overview
- 1 Traffic crashes in the United States
- 2 National strategies for traffic safety improvements
- 2.1 "Vision Zero" road traffic safety concept
- 2.2 U.S. national roadway safety strategy
- 3 Human factors overview and relations to highway design and traffic control
- 2 Driver information perception and processing
- 4 Human sensory and perceptual system
- 4.1 Gustatory system (sense of taste)
- 4.2 Olfactory system (sense of smell)
- 4.3 Somatosensory system (sense of touch)
- 4.4 Auditory and vestibular system (sense of hearing and equilibrium)
- 4.4.1 The effects of noise pollution
- 4.5 Visual system (sense of vision)
- 5 Driving-related visual functions
- 5.1 Static visual acuity
- 5.2 Dynamic visual acuity
- 5.3 Adaptation and glare sensitivity
- 5.4 Contrast sensitivity
- 5.5 Color vision
- 5.6 Motion detection
- 5.7 Stereopsis and monocular vision
- 6 Drivers' perception of depth and motion
- 6.1 Driver perception of depth
- 6.2 Driver perception of speed
- 6.2.1 The concept of optic flow
- 6.2.2 Self-motion perception
- 6.2.3 Perception of other road users' motion
- 6.2.4 Detection of relative velocity when car following
- 6.2.5 Passing on two-lane highways
- 6.2.6 Perceiving the motion of other vehicles at intersections
- 6.3 The general trends in driver's speed and depth perception
- 7 Drivers' visual search
- 7.1 Driver field of view
- 7.2 Characteristics of driver glance behavior
- 7.2.1 Glance durations
- 7.3 Driver typical-looking behavior
- 8 Driver information processing, attention, and mental workload
- 8.1 Definition and quantification of information
- 8.2 How road users seek information
- 8.3 A model of human information processing
- 8.3.1 Sensory processing
- 8.3.2 Perception
- 8.3.3 Cognition and memory
- 8.3.4 Response selection and execution
- 8.3.5 Feedback
- 8.4 Attention
- 8.4.1 Selective attention
- 8.4.2 Sustained attention or vigilance
- 8.4.3 Divided attention and automaticity
- 8.4.4 Timesharing or multitasking
- 8.5 Mental workload concept
- 8.5.1 Driver performance at different mental workloads
- 8.5.2 Measures of driver workload
- 8.5.3 Performance measures
- 8.5.4 Self-report measures
- 8.5.5 Physiological measures
- 9 Driver information load
- 9.1 Driver information overload concept
- 9.2 Driver information load model
- 9.2.1 Individual sign information load
- 9.2.2 Sign arrays information load
- Combination rules for sign arrays
- 9.2.3 Driver information load multiple regression formula
- 9.2.4 General guidance how to identify driver information overload
- Too much information on one sign
- Multiple sign panels at the same location
- Signs in close proximity