Human Factors in Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS) - Progress to Date

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Advanced Traffic Management Systems Human Factors Systems Engineering
• Resource Type:
  Web Document
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
• Abstract:
  Traffic management centers (TMC) are expanding their efforts and resources to maintain efficient traffic flow and reduce congestion. More automation in the traffic control center is sought for processing traffic flow information from a variety of traffic sensing systems, for activation of traffic control systems such as ramp metering, and for communication of current traffic information through the use of variable message signs (VMS's). As a result the TMC operator is responsible for more monitoring, interpretation, and decision making. The expansion of these tasks increases the probability of operator error, incorrect decisions, the absence of needed decisions/actions, or an unacceptable amount of time in responding to traffic events. In May of 1992 the Federal Highway Administration initiated a contract "Human Factors in Advanced Traffic Management Systems Design Evolution" to optimize the TMC operator interface with these systems and minimize human factors concerns.
  
  The human factors TMC project has several objectives. One is to provide a top down, systems engineering analysis of system and operator needs. This analysis complemented planned empirical human factors research objectives to provide alternative designs for operator interface issues. The empirical research is being conducted on a human factors research simulator developed for this contract. The final objective is to provide a human factors handbook which contains guidelines for TMC design.
  
  
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• Collection(s):
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