Human Factors for Highway Engineers
Edited by
        R. Fuller, Department of Psychology, Trinity College, Dublin 2,
Ireland Email: [log in to unmask]
        J.A. Santos, Department of Psychology, University of Minho, IEP,
Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal Email: [log in to unmask]
Description
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 '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 is the first book ever to provide this psychological knowledge and
insight. It may not yet have all the answers, but where there are gaps in
knowledge it will help you ask the right questions.
Audience
For highway design practitioners as well as students of road safety.
Contents
Foreword.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.

The System: Road and Road User.
Psychology and the highway engineer (R. Fuller, J.A. Santos).
Multiple perspectives (O. Carsten).
Ergonomics of driver's interface with the road environment: the contribution
of psychological research (F. Saad).
Learning and the road user (R. Fuller).
A study of subjective road categorization and driving behaviour (N. Kaptein
et al.).

The Driver From A Psychological Perspective.

Human factors and driving (R. Fuller).
Visual factors in driving (D.R. Mestre).
Perception of road users' motion (J.A. Santos et al.).
Sampling information from the road environment (J. Theeuwes).
Some insights on how to work with human error in traffic behaviour (E.J.
Carbonell, B. Martín-del-Río). Mental workload (D. de Waard).
Learning and driving: an incomplete but continuing story (J.A. Groeger).
Behavioural adaptation and drivers' task control (H. Summala).
Social psychological principles: 'the group inside the person (M.
O'Connell).

Special Categories of Road User.
Young pedestrians and young cyclists (H.H. van der Molen).
The psychology of the young driver (R. Fuller).
Road users who are elderly: drivers and pedestrians (A. Simões, C.
Marin-Lamellet).

Advanced Transport Technology.
A note on advanced transport technology (R. Fuller, J.A. Santos).
Glossary.
References.
Subject index.
Reviews
Professor Brian Fildes, Accident Research Centre, Monash University,
Australia
        "This important book is urgently needed as we attempt to reduce
death and serious injury on our roads in the coming years. It is aimed at
bringing together human factors and highway engineers to work towards a
greater understanding of current road safety issues and incorporating a
range of different road safety and transportation perspectives in the
interest of greater road safety. It provides a lively, readable and
stimulating text involving many experienced professionals' views on a range
of relevant science, engineering, information processing, behavioural,
social and educational topics. It explains why psychology is relevant and
useful to the work of the highway engineer, it describes a number of
relevant basic principles of psychology for highway design and outlines
applications of psychology of use to highway engineering.
        I commend this book to the highway design practitioner as well as
students of road safety. It is well written and contains a number of
valuable lessons from the writings of these eminent authors, lessons that
cannot be overlooked if we are to continue to improve road safety. "
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