Improved business driveway delineation in urban work zones.

Details

• Creators:
  Theiss, LuAnn ; Swindell, Steven ; Gillette, II, George F. ; Ullman, Gerald L.
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas A&M Transportation Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  Texas. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Technology Implementation Office ; United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Work zones
  • Driveways
  • Businesses
  • Highway delineators
  • Traffic channelization
  • Field tests
  • Human factors
  • Eye movements
  • Traffic cones
  • Measures of effectiveness
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• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/TX-15/0-6781-1
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas A&M Transportation Institute
• Abstract:
  This report documents the efforts and results of a two-year research project aimed at improving driveway ; delineation in work zones. The first year of the project included a closed-course study to identify the most ; promising driveway delineation alternatives for further study. In the second year of the research project, the ; researchers performed a human factors study of alternative business driveway channelizing treatments in real ; work zones. The purpose of the research was to determine the effectiveness of alternative business driveway ; channelizing treatments over standard drum treatments. The alternative treatments included combinations of ; 18-inch tall low-profile longitudinal channelizing devices and 42-inch tall cones (i.e., grabber cones). Using ; paid participants who drove a instrumented vehicles, the researchers used driver eye-tracking equipment to ; compare differences in drivers’ visual attention while approaching business driveways with the various ; channelization treatments deployed. Other measures of effectiveness (MOEs) considered were detection ; distance, percentage of missed driveways, driver perception/recall of treatments, and driver preferences. ; While differences in the MOE were less pronounced during the day, the alternative channelizing treatments ; generally performed better than the standard drum treatment at night.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  Project 0-6781
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/28847/dot_28847_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 8.87 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:57f0cf26ebdc5c666d782311d4f2a82a1c19f61655e7b0e927846ce605552c29