Designing VMS Sign Messages to Enhance Driving Safety - Couverture souple

Yang, Chun-Ming

 
9783836499118: Designing VMS Sign Messages to Enhance Driving Safety
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3836499118 ISBN 13 : 9783836499118
Editeur : VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008

Synopsis

The state-of-the-art variable message sign (VMS) systems have been widely used as a crucial means in the daily traffic environment to promote safe and efficient driving on highways. In addition, these overhead mounted VMSs play an important role in the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) by displaying real-time information and advice about roadway and traffic conditions. Thus, a properly designed and displayed message on VMS is especially important to a motorist who has to detect, comprehend, and act on signage information while being occupied with the driving task. To this end, this book proposes a comprehensive human factors study, incorporating three approaches: driver questionnaire surveys, lab experiments, and field studies, to investigate various factors in VMS messaging and their impacts on a drivers understanding of and reaction to a message. The findings with a specific set of VMS features should help traffic engineers and highway management design VMS signs that could be noticed, understood and responded to in a more timely fashion. Safer and more proactive driving experiences could be achieved by adopting these suggested VMS features.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The state-of-the-art variable message sign (VMS) systems have been widely used as a crucial means in the daily traffic environment to promote safe and efficient driving on highways. In addition, these overhead mounted VMSs play an important role in the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) by displaying real-time information and advice about roadway and traffic conditions. Thus, a properly designed and displayed message on VMS is especially important to a motorist who has to detect, comprehend, and act on signage information while being occupied with the driving task. To this end, this book proposes a comprehensive human factors study, incorporating three approaches: driver questionnaire surveys, lab experiments, and field studies, to investigate various factors in VMS messaging and their impacts on a drivers understanding of and reaction to a message. The findings with a specific set of VMS features should help traffic engineers and highway management design VMS signs that could be noticed, understood and responded to in a more timely fashion. Safer and more proactive driving experiences could be achieved by adopting these suggested VMS features.

Biographie de l'auteur

Chun-Ming Yang completed his PhD in the Industrial Engineering at the Univ. of Rhode Island in the USA; both MS and BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Univ. of Missouri-Rolla in the USA. Previously a Design Manager at Ford Taiwan, he is now an Assistant Professor in the Industrial Design at the Mingchi Univ. of Technology in Taiwan, ROC.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3836499118
ISBN 13 
9783836499118
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
152
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