Books in the Human Factors in Road and Rail Transport series

In the United States, around 20 percent of all Police-reported road crashes involve driver distraction as a contributing factor. The situation is similar in other countries. This book adds to the accumulating evidence-base on driver distraction and inattention.

Explores the everyday use of music listening while driving a car. This title presents the relationship between cars and music in an effort to understand how music behaviour in the car can either enhance driver safety or place the driver at increased risk of accidents.

Currently, the rail industry lacks a standardized approach to the human factors evaluation of new technologies in operational settings. While a number of human factors evaluation methods exist (such as task analysis, situation awareness measures, quasi-experiments), these are rarely tailored to the industry's needs.

Traffic psychology has been the focus of research for almost as long as the motor car has been in existence. This volume aims to describe and discuss the advances in the study of traffic psychology, with a major focus on how the field contributes to the understanding of at-risk road-user behaviour.

Provides the background for those who want to know more about the effects of road design on driving behaviour. This title uses a systems approach to allow a better understanding of why and in what circumstances drivers may commit errors.

Describes driving as a social and cultural practice, showing how a cultural studies approach can contribute to a better understanding of driving behaviour and to a more appropriate approach to road-safety policy. This book examines the perspectives that young people in particular have on cars.

Discusses several methodological problems in traffic psychology which are not currently recognized as such. Summarizing and analyzing the available research, this work states that there are a number of commonly made assumptions about the validity of methods that have little backing, and that many basic problems have not been researched at all.

Presents a sociological and criminological perspective critical to understanding the driver's role at the centre of road safety interventions. This book offers an explanation for the continued debate about one road safety intervention - the speed camera - by situating that debate within contemporary literature about the 'risk society'.

Problems related to the design and evaluation of intelligent driver support systems (IDSSs) and social perspectives related to their introduction on a large scale may only be fully addressed from a multi-disciplinary point of view. This book provides such knowledge from both a human and social factors background.

Driver inattention has been identified as one of the leading causes for car accidents. This book focuses on two aspects of driver information-processing: multisensory interactions and the spatial distribution of attention in driving.

Driver Feedback in Automotive Engineering presents the outcome of a substantial research project into a relatively neglected area of vehicle design: vehicle feedback. It describes the ¿human factors¿ that lie at the heart of the driver-vehicle interaction, those which help to explain why so many people, with comparatively little training, can drive a car in what is a complex environment, with the appearance of relative ease.

Addresses topics such as: passengers and public; driver performance and workload; driving and cognition; train cab and interfaces: simulation and design; routes, signage, signals and drivability; and more. This book is aimed at those concerned with making railways safer, reliable, of higher quality and efficient.