Overview

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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Author:   Gemma J. M. Read ,  Vanessa Beanland ,  Michael G. Lenné ,  Neville A. Stanton (University of Southhampton, United Kingdom)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   CRC Press
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9781138749238

ISBN 10:   1138749230
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   26 July 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction to the research approach; Chapter 1 – Systems thinking in transport analysis and design; Chapter 2 – An overview of key human factors approaches and methods ; Chapter 3 – An integrated framework for transport analysis and design ; Part 2: Rail level crossing data collection and analysis; Chapter 4 – Understanding the current system; Chapter 5 – A systems analysis of rail level crossings; Part 3: Design of new rail level crossing environments; Chapter 6 – A participatory approach to designing novel rail level crossings; Chapter 7 – Evaluating initial design concepts using the systems models; Chapter 8 – Design refinement; Part 4: Evaluation of design concepts; Chapter 9 – Experimental evaluation of novel design concepts; Chapter 10 – Evaluation of novel design concepts by all road users; Part 5: Conclusions and future applications; Chapter 11 – Summary and conclusions; Chapter 12 – Future applications and opportunities; Appendix - Guidance for using the key human factors methods and approaches

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