Applied Human Factors in Road
Safety Guide is a practical guide for the application of human factors to road
design and traffic operations, with a focus on road safety for a Canadian
audience.
The guide provides practitioners
with a basic understanding of the road user capabilities, performance and
behaviours, and also includes several practical tools for the application of
human factors, including: design consistency, positive guidance, self-explaining
roads, driver information load analysis and human factors axioms for road
safety.
The material is designed to be
applicable to all road users including motorists, pedestrians and
cyclists. Applied Human Factors in Road Safety is intended to identify,
define, and share good practices in road safety engineering in order to assist
Canadian road authorities and road safety engineering practitioners in
providing service to the public and addressing road safety issues at the local
level. Implementing good road safety engineering practices will help achieve
the targets set in local road safety plans as well as in Canada's Road Safety
Vision.
The Guide is part of the Canadian
Road Safety Engineering Handbook (CRaSH), a series of 10 titles and anticipated
titles developed under the auspices of the Road Safety Standing Committee of
the Chief Engineers' Council.
Although each book is
specifically designed to be self-contained, taken together they comprise a
comprehensive, authoritative and highly complementary set of practical
guidelines. Other books in the series provide information on subject areas such
as road safety audits and speed management.
Disponible en français : Guide
d'application des facteurs humains en séacute;curitéacute; routiégrave;re
(2013)