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It's a widely recognised trend that powered-two-wheelers' (PTWs)
use has been steadily increasing and is projected to increase
further. While providing benefits to the community in the form of
reduced traffic congestion and environmental benefits, the risks to
PTW riders remain and visibility will always be a key issue.
Increasing Motorcycle Conspicuity aims to illustrate how driving
simulation, field studies and laboratory experiments can be used to
improve rider safety through the design and evaluation of a range
of safety measures. The book outlines the factors that contribute
to PTW visibility and detection by car drivers, and presents case
studies to illustrate how the various methods can be used to
explore the contribution of these factors. The final chapter of the
book highlights the utility of a simulation-based approach to
improving PTW safety and discusses this method's future
applications. The case studies collected within the volume cover
phases of the design of conspicuity treatments and provide a broad
spectrum of empirical strategies for assessing the interventions.
The book is most directly relevant to researchers and applied
scientists from the fields of traffic/transportation psychology and
human factors, as well as to practitioners from the traffic safety
sector.
How can we design transport environments that cater to the
situation awareness needs of different end-users? This book answers
this question by showcasing how state-of-the-art human factors
theory and methods can be used to understand how situation
awareness differs across drivers, cyclists, motorcyclists, and
pedestrians and creates new designs that cater to these diverse
situation awareness needs. Written by experts in the field and
based on a major program of work funded by the Australian Research
Council, this book outlines the distributed situation awareness
model and provides practical guidance on how to study situation
awareness naturalistically and how to create designs that support,
rather than hinder, situation awareness. The book closes by
outlining outline a generic framework to support similar
applications in other areas, and discusses future applications in
areas such as vehicle automation, artificial intelligence, and
cybersecurity. Features Challenges traditional road safety
analysis, design processes and conventions Outlines a novel on-road
study methodology for analyzing naturalistic interactions among
drivers, cyclists, motorcyclists and pedestrians Presents a review
of state-of-the-art situation awareness theory and methods Provides
practical guidance on a series of human factors methods Describes a
framework to support the design of transport environments Evaluates
new intersection concepts that encompass features designed to
prevent collisions at intersections
It's a widely recognised trend that powered-two-wheelers' (PTWs)
use has been steadily increasing and is projected to increase
further. While providing benefits to the community in the form of
reduced traffic congestion and environmental benefits, the risks to
PTW riders remain and visibility will always be a key issue.
Increasing Motorcycle Conspicuity aims to illustrate how driving
simulation, field studies and laboratory experiments can be used to
improve rider safety through the design and evaluation of a range
of safety measures. The book outlines the factors that contribute
to PTW visibility and detection by car drivers, and presents case
studies to illustrate how the various methods can be used to
explore the contribution of these factors. The final chapter of the
book highlights the utility of a simulation-based approach to
improving PTW safety and discusses this method's future
applications. The case studies collected within the volume cover
phases of the design of conspicuity treatments and provide a broad
spectrum of empirical strategies for assessing the interventions.
The book is most directly relevant to researchers and applied
scientists from the fields of traffic/transportation psychology and
human factors, as well as to practitioners from the traffic safety
sector.
Governments and road safety agencies around the world have either
introduced or are considering 'safe system' strategies, a long
overdue acknowledgement that different elements of the road system
contribute to road safety outcomes. Human factors approaches have a
leading role here in both conceptualising the road system as a
complex sociotechnical system and in providing practical approaches
to support true systems-based countermeasures. This book
illustrates the potential for integrating contemporary
systems-based human factors methods with modern day
driving-assessment methods, such as vehicle instrumentation and
driving simulation, to understand and enhance performance in modern
day road-transport systems. The book outlines why a fundamental
paradigm shift is needed in the way these systems are designed and
operated, and illustrates how a wide range of accepted
human-factors approaches can be applied successfully to road
transport to revolutionise the countermeasure design process. The
practical illustrations of these human factors methods are applied
to a long-standing road and rail safety issue: rail level
crossings, where the road and rail systems intersect. The final
chapter of the book highlights the utility of the human factors
approach to reducing road trauma and discusses future applications
of the approach.
Simulation continues to be a growth area in transportation human
factors. From empirical studies in the laboratory to the latest
training techniques in the field, simulators offer myriad benefits
for the experimenter and the practitioner. This book draws together
current trends in research and training simulators for the road,
rail, air and sea sectors to inform the reader how to maximize both
validity and cost-effectiveness in each case. Simulators for
Transportation Human Factors provides a valuable resource for both
researchers and practitioners in transportation human factors on
the use of simulators, giving readers concrete examples and case
studies of how simulators have been developed and used in empirical
research as well as training applications. It offers useful and
usable information on the functional requirements of simulators
without the need for any background knowledge on the technical
aspects, focusing on the state of the art of research and
applications in transport simulators rather than the state of the
art of simulation technology. The book covers simulators in
operational terms instead of task simulation/modelling and provides
a useful balance between a bottom-up, academic approach and a
top-down, practical perspective.
Simulation continues to be a growth area in transportation human
factors. From empirical studies in the laboratory to the latest
training techniques in the field, simulators offer myriad benefits
for the experimenter and the practitioner. This book draws together
current trends in research and training simulators for the road,
rail, air and sea sectors to inform the reader how to maximize both
validity and cost-effectiveness in each case. Simulators for
Transportation Human Factors provides a valuable resource for both
researchers and practitioners in transportation human factors on
the use of simulators, giving readers concrete examples and case
studies of how simulators have been developed and used in empirical
research as well as training applications. It offers useful and
usable information on the functional requirements of simulators
without the need for any background knowledge on the technical
aspects, focusing on the state of the art of research and
applications in transport simulators rather than the state of the
art of simulation technology. The book covers simulators in
operational terms instead of task simulation/modelling and provides
a useful balance between a bottom-up, academic approach and a
top-down, practical perspective.
Governments and road safety agencies around the world have either
introduced or are considering 'safe system' strategies, a long
overdue acknowledgement that different elements of the road system
contribute to road safety outcomes. Human factors approaches have a
leading role here in both conceptualising the road system as a
complex sociotechnical system and in providing practical approaches
to support true systems-based countermeasures. This book
illustrates the potential for integrating contemporary
systems-based human factors methods with modern day
driving-assessment methods, such as vehicle instrumentation and
driving simulation, to understand and enhance performance in modern
day road-transport systems. The book outlines why a fundamental
paradigm shift is needed in the way these systems are designed and
operated, and illustrates how a wide range of accepted
human-factors approaches can be applied successfully to road
transport to revolutionise the countermeasure design process. The
practical illustrations of these human factors methods are applied
to a long-standing road and rail safety issue: rail level
crossings, where the road and rail systems intersect. The final
chapter of the book highlights the utility of the human factors
approach to reducing road trauma and discusses future applications
of the approach.
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