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TE-Road User and Vehicle Characteristic
TE-Road User and Vehicle Characteristic
TE-Road User and Vehicle Characteristic
Characteristics
Traffic System
Components
Vehicles
General Environment
Pedestrians
Roads
Control Devices
Road Users
PhysiologicalMeasurable and Usually
Quantifiable
PsychologicalMuch more difficult to
measure and quantify
Psychological:
x Desired speeds
x Desired safety distances
Physiological:
x Perception-Reaction time
x Visual factors
Clear
vision cone
(3-5 deg)
Hearing: is an aid to identify/perceive alert towards safety
Perception-Reaction Process
PRT = Perception + Reaction
= (Detection + Identification + Decision making)
+
(Time needed to initiate the physical response)
PIER/PIEV = Perception + Intellection/Identification +
Emotion + Reaction (or volition)
PIEV Process:
Perception: Is a process of perceiving the sensations
received through organs.
Intellection: is the identification of stimuli by the
development of new thoughts and ideas,
which can be different from the simple
recognition by past experience.
Time- depends on comparing the deferent ideas, regrouping and registering the
new sensations.