00634566

Component

http://onlinepubs.trb.org...trr/1993/1385/1385-010.pdf

https://scholar.google.co...feld&publication_year=1993

Interchanges are freeway design features that pose considerable safety and operational problems for drivers. Most freeway accidents and directional uncertainty occur in the vicinity of interchanges. Reasons for this phenomenon include friction between entering and exiting traffic, variability in design, and a high probability for driver error, the primary contributing factor of accidents. An introduction of general human factors considerations in highway design is presented; it is intended for highway engineers unfamiliar with the science of human factors. Examined are human factors issues associated with interchange design features, including driving task performance, driver error sources, reception of visually displayed information, information handling, driver attributes, sight distance, driver expectancy violations, and information presentation techniques and principles. Key human factors considerations in intersection design and operations are discussed.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1385, Intersection and Interchange Design. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved

01403217

English

p. 84-89

1993

Transportation Research Record

0309054567

References (16)

Communication; Driver errors; Driver information systems; Drivers; Driving; Highway design; Human characteristics; Human factors; Interchanges; Interchanges and intersections; Sight distance; Vision

Driver characteristics; Information presentation

Design; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Aug 30 1993 12:00AM

• ACCESS CONTROL ISSUES RELATED TO URBAN ARTERIAL INTERSECTION DESIGN
• ACCIDENTS AND SAFETY ASSOCIATED WITH INTERCHANGES
• COMPARISON OF SIGHT DISTANCE PROCEDURES FOR TURNING VEHICLES FROM A STOP-CONTROLLED APPROACH
• COORDINATION OF BASIC INTERSECTION DESIGN ELEMENTS: AN OVERVIEW
• DESIGN OF INTERCHANGE AT-GRADE RAMP TERMINALS
• FREEWAY AND INTERCHANGE DESIGN: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
• GEOMETRIC DESIGN FEATURES OF SINGLE-POINT URBAN INTERCHANGES
• GEOMETRIC DESIGN OF METERED ENTRANCE AND HIGH-OCCUPANCY VEHICLE BYPASS RAMPS
• GRADE-SEPARATED INTERSECTIONS
• INTERCHANGE PLANNING AND DESIGN--AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
• INTERCHANGE RAMP GEOMETRICS--ALIGNMENT AND SUPERELEVATION DESIGN
• INTERCHANGE STUDY AND SELECTION PROCESS
• INTERSECTION DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS TO ACCOMMODATE LARGE TRUCKS
• LENGTHS OF LEFT-TURN LANES AT SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS
• OPERATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR SYSTEMS OF INTERCHANGES
• RAMP EXIT/ENTRANCE DESIGN--TAPER VERSUS PARALLEL AND CRITICAL DIMENSIONS
• RAMP/MAINLINE SPEED RELATIONSHIPS AND DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS
• SAFE ACCOMMODATION OF PEDESTRIANS AT INTERSECTIONS
• SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS AT INTERSECTIONS ON RURAL EXPRESSWAYS: A SURVEY OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF TRANSPORTATION
• TWO-LANE LOOP RAMPS: OPERATION AND DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS