Human Factors in Traffic Safety for Highway and Traffic Engineers

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Dr. Alexei Tsyganov is a former Research Scientist at the University of Texas at Austin and a Strategic Highway Safety Engineer with the Virginia Department of Transportation. He has been investigating human factors in traffic safety for over 40 years. He has conducted numerous research projects, serving as the principal investigator in 30 studies. He has more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications in multiple countries. Major results of his studies have been included in highway design manuals of several European countries, Federal Highway Administration's Crash Modification Factors Clearinghouse and several other synthesis reports.

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Human Factors in Traffic Safety for Highway and Traffic Engineers provides details on the human factors' principles and findings that enhance the work of highway and traffic engineers, allowing non-experts to more effectively bring consideration of road user capabilities and limitations into design, operations, and safety. The book provides data and insights from scientific literature on the needs, capabilities, and limitations of road users, including perception and effects of visual demands, cognition, and influence of expectations on driving behavior. It bridges the gap between human factors' research and practical application, presenting complex psychological insights in an accessible manner. Sections explain the significance of the traffic safety problem, giving an overview of the importance of human factors in highway design and traffic engineering, focus on different issues of driver information perception and processing, including driver perception of depth and speed, driver's visual search, how road users search for information, and how mental and information load affects drivers' performance, provide results of investigations of traffic crash causation and major driver errors, describe key principles of road users' considerations during highway design and traffic operation, and focus on safety analysis and assessment.