Understanding Driver Performance Variability and Perception of Risk: DriverHazard Perception Research Plan

摘要

This report identifies a proposed comprehensive research program for defining,measuring, and quantifying driver perception of hazards as it relates to highway design, operations, and safety standards. Six research projects were proposed: (1) multivariate analysis of a specific traffic situation, (2) traffic operational factors, (3) driver awareness of hazards/hazardous operating conditions, (4) unintended consequences of highway improvements, (5) social context, and (6) engineering or roadway changes to increase driver hazard perception. These projects will provide input to human factors safety handbooks and will result in guidelines, tools, and models by which highway design can be developed and evaluated.