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https://doi.org/10.3141/2018-09

http://scholar.google.com...lyer&publication_year=2007

A human factors study assessed the effects of adding graphics to dynamic message sign (DMS) messages. Two approaches employed in the assessment—a questionnaire survey and a video-based driving simulation experiment—are reported here along with the findings. The questionnaire surveyed drivers’ preferences concerning the addition of graphics to a text message, the color of the message, alternative graphic images, placement of the graphic image, image contrast, flashing, and the framing of graphic images. One hundred and twenty-seven subjects from Rhode Island participated in the survey. Statistical analysis of survey results showed strong preference for graphic-aided messages over text-only messages; amber-color messages over green- and red-color messages; and messages with graphic on the left side over others. The analysis also identified specific graphics to accompany certain text messages. Based on the survey results, a video-based driving simulation experiment was designed to test drivers’ responses to selected DMS messages surveyed in the questionnaire. Forty-eight subjects from different age groups with different native language backgrounds took part in the experiment. Results of the experiment showed that graphic-aided messages displayed in amber or green were responded to significantly faster than other settings. Older drivers’ responses were slower and less accurate than others; however, their responses improved significantly when the DMS messages were enhanced by graphics. It was also found that graphic-aided DMS messages helped improve the responses of non-native-English-speaking drivers.

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English

pp 63-71

2007

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

9780309104456

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Figures (6) ; References (15) ; Tables (7)

Age groups; Color; Driving simulators; Graphics; Human factors; Messages (Communications); Persons by race and ethnicity; Questionnaires; Stated preferences; Statistical analysis; Surveys; Variable message signs

Rhode Island

Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I73: Traffic Control; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Feb 8 2007 6:54PM

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