Road User Characteristics With Emphasis on Life Styles Quality of Life and Safety Proceedings of 14th Ictct Workshop Held Caserta Italy October 2001, 2001
Law enforcement and road safety campaigns are generic terms for two separate road safety initiati... more Law enforcement and road safety campaigns are generic terms for two separate road safety initiatives, which may comprise several more specific measures. Sometimes these measures are used together and so intertwined that you can hardly tell the difference and say whether it is “publicized enforcement” or a “road safety campaign accompanied by enforcement”. They need to be treated separately when the aim is to understand inherent mechanisms and evaluate their effects on behaviour and accidents. A separation is paramount when one wants to uncover the laws of learning that may be at work in the two cases. Unfortunately, enforcement is seldom specified when it is applied as part of a road safety campaigns, which may mask its role as a contributing factor in campaigns. Hence, separate analysis is required to uncover the effects of different law enforcement measures as with stationary and manual speed enforcement, patrolling, speed cameras, DUI enforcement, etc. As the focus is driver beha...
A prime objective of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) which are applied in road transportation... more A prime objective of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) which are applied in road transportation is to reduce the number of accidents. A subset of ITS is Driver Support Systems (DSS), i.e. systems that support the driver in handling information, provide warnings, or interfere in the process of maneuvering the car. The present overview will provide ex ante estimates regarding the effects on accidents of Intelligent Speed Adaptation, Maximum Speed Governor, Alcolock, Seat-belt Lock, Sleep Warning Systems, Programmable Ignition Key, Adapative Cruise Control and Electronic Stability Control. The estimation methods will, except for ESC, be by proxy, i.e. assumed effect on certain accident types or other surrogate variables. Focus will be on systems that limit or hinder drivers in engaging in behaviours that are deliberate violations of traffic law. Estimates of lives saved are based on in-depth investigation of fatal accidents possibly prevented if respective systems had been installed ...
It is known that elevated pedestrian crossings, refuges on pedestrian crossings, and pedestrian c... more It is known that elevated pedestrian crossings, refuges on pedestrian crossings, and pedestrian crossings with separate phases at traffic signal controlled intersections, all significantly reduces the number of accidents with pedestrians, while ordinary marked pedestrian crossings significantly increases the number of accidents with pedestrians. This discrepancy between measures is puzzling and calls for explanations of what really contributes to the
Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 2014
ABSTRACT Editor’s Note: This paper was invited and peer-reviewed for a special section on History... more ABSTRACT Editor’s Note: This paper was invited and peer-reviewed for a special section on History of Traffic Psychology. The special section included a wide range of manuscript styles, from those typical of this journal to other styles just as important for sharing the discipline’s history. Authors contributed reasoned viewpoints from experience and literature on where the discipline has come from and where it may be heading, to an investigation of trends and topics in the discipline since the early 20th century.
Modelling Driver Behaviour in Automotive Environments, 2007
Intelligent transport system (ITS) is a generic concept, which covers a wide range of systems. In... more Intelligent transport system (ITS) is a generic concept, which covers a wide range of systems. In this context the concept is applied on automotive systems and comprises systems generally defined as (advanced) driver assistance systems (ADAS/DAS), in-vehicle information systems (IVIS) and roadside telematics (RT). The present text focuses on anti-locking brake systems (ABS), which is used as an illustrative example
Road User Characteristics With Emphasis on Life Styles Quality of Life and Safety Proceedings of 14th Ictct Workshop Held Caserta Italy October 2001, 2001
Law enforcement and road safety campaigns are generic terms for two separate road safety initiati... more Law enforcement and road safety campaigns are generic terms for two separate road safety initiatives, which may comprise several more specific measures. Sometimes these measures are used together and so intertwined that you can hardly tell the difference and say whether it is “publicized enforcement” or a “road safety campaign accompanied by enforcement”. They need to be treated separately when the aim is to understand inherent mechanisms and evaluate their effects on behaviour and accidents. A separation is paramount when one wants to uncover the laws of learning that may be at work in the two cases. Unfortunately, enforcement is seldom specified when it is applied as part of a road safety campaigns, which may mask its role as a contributing factor in campaigns. Hence, separate analysis is required to uncover the effects of different law enforcement measures as with stationary and manual speed enforcement, patrolling, speed cameras, DUI enforcement, etc. As the focus is driver beha...
A prime objective of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) which are applied in road transportation... more A prime objective of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) which are applied in road transportation is to reduce the number of accidents. A subset of ITS is Driver Support Systems (DSS), i.e. systems that support the driver in handling information, provide warnings, or interfere in the process of maneuvering the car. The present overview will provide ex ante estimates regarding the effects on accidents of Intelligent Speed Adaptation, Maximum Speed Governor, Alcolock, Seat-belt Lock, Sleep Warning Systems, Programmable Ignition Key, Adapative Cruise Control and Electronic Stability Control. The estimation methods will, except for ESC, be by proxy, i.e. assumed effect on certain accident types or other surrogate variables. Focus will be on systems that limit or hinder drivers in engaging in behaviours that are deliberate violations of traffic law. Estimates of lives saved are based on in-depth investigation of fatal accidents possibly prevented if respective systems had been installed ...
It is known that elevated pedestrian crossings, refuges on pedestrian crossings, and pedestrian c... more It is known that elevated pedestrian crossings, refuges on pedestrian crossings, and pedestrian crossings with separate phases at traffic signal controlled intersections, all significantly reduces the number of accidents with pedestrians, while ordinary marked pedestrian crossings significantly increases the number of accidents with pedestrians. This discrepancy between measures is puzzling and calls for explanations of what really contributes to the
Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 2014
ABSTRACT Editor’s Note: This paper was invited and peer-reviewed for a special section on History... more ABSTRACT Editor’s Note: This paper was invited and peer-reviewed for a special section on History of Traffic Psychology. The special section included a wide range of manuscript styles, from those typical of this journal to other styles just as important for sharing the discipline’s history. Authors contributed reasoned viewpoints from experience and literature on where the discipline has come from and where it may be heading, to an investigation of trends and topics in the discipline since the early 20th century.
Modelling Driver Behaviour in Automotive Environments, 2007
Intelligent transport system (ITS) is a generic concept, which covers a wide range of systems. In... more Intelligent transport system (ITS) is a generic concept, which covers a wide range of systems. In this context the concept is applied on automotive systems and comprises systems generally defined as (advanced) driver assistance systems (ADAS/DAS), in-vehicle information systems (IVIS) and roadside telematics (RT). The present text focuses on anti-locking brake systems (ABS), which is used as an illustrative example
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