1st Edition

Distributed Situation Awareness in Road Transport Theory, Measurement, and Application to Intersection Design

    286 Pages 66 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    How can we design transport environments that cater to the situation awareness needs of different end-users? This book answers this question by showcasing how state-of-the-art human factors theory and methods can be used to understand how situation awareness differs across drivers, cyclists, motorcyclists, and pedestrians and creates new designs that cater to these diverse situation awareness needs.

    Written by experts in the field and based on a major program of work funded by the Australian Research Council, this book outlines the distributed situation awareness model and provides practical guidance on how to study situation awareness naturalistically and how to create designs that support, rather than hinder, situation awareness. The book closes by outlining outline a generic framework to support similar applications in other areas, and discusses future applications in areas such as vehicle automation, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity.

    Features

    • Challenges traditional road safety analysis, design processes and conventions
    • Outlines a novel on-road study methodology for analyzing naturalistic interactions among drivers, cyclists, motorcyclists and pedestrians
    • Presents a review of state-of-the-art situation awareness theory and methods
    • Provides practical guidance on a series of human factors methods
    • Describes a framework to support the design of transport environments
    • Evaluates new intersection concepts that encompass features designed to prevent collisions at intersections

    Situation awareness in individuals, teams, and systems: an overview of situation awareness models and their utility for road safety research and practice. What is going on? Situation Awareness on the road. It’s good to talk: Assessing distributed situation awareness on the road. Is three a crowd? How compatible is the situation awareness of drivers, motorcyclists, and cyclists. Digging deeper into incompatibilities between road user situation awareness: using the Event Analysis of Systemic Teamwork to analyse distributed situation awareness at intersections. The Flood Study: Examining naturalistic interactions between road users at intersections. Designer road environments: A sociotechnical systems approach to designing for distributed situation awareness. Designing for distributed situation awareness: Using Cognitive Work Analysis to identify intersection design requirements. Designing new intersections using the Cognitive Work Analysis Design Toolkit. Multi-road user evaluation of intersection design concepts. Designing for DSA in future road transport systems and beyond

    Biography

    Paul M. Salmon, Michael G. Lenné