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Safety implications of co-locating road signs: a driving simulator investigation

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posted on 2017-05-24, 09:59 authored by Ashleigh FiltnessAshleigh Filtness, Gregoire S. Larue, Amy Schramm, Joshua Fuller, Andry Rakotonirainy, Clarissa Han, Peter Cairney
Background As road complexity increases the requirement for number of road signs also increases, although the amount of road side space does not. One practical strategy to address this is to present multiple road signs on the same gantry (sign co-location). However, there is very little research on the safety implications of this practice. Method 36 participants (mean age = 42.25 years, SD = 13.99, 18 females) completed three driving simulator scenarios, each scenario had a different sign co-location condition: no co-location, dual co-location and triple co-location. Each scenario presented similar information using direction signs, variable message signs and variable speed limit signs, under. Each drive included standard motorway driving (100 km/h speed zone) in free flow traffic and one emergency event where a lead vehicle suddenly braked. The scenario order was counterbalanced and the emergency event vehicle varied. Results Overall, there was no impact of co-locating signs on general driving performance. No significant difference was observed between conditions for reaction time and minimum headway in response to the emergency event. Participants were able to correctly choose their destination whether the signs were co-located or not. Discussion For the particular configuration of signs tested there is no evidence that co-location negatively impacts driving performance. However, there may be some implications for travel speed and the manner in which the emergency event is responded to. Future work should confirm the findings on real roads. These findings provided support for sign co-location as a practical and safe option for displaying multiple road signs in a confined area.

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Transportation Research Part F: Psychology and Behaviour

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47

Pages

187–198

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FILTNESS, A.J. ... et al, 2017. Safety implications of co-locating road signs: a driving simulator investigation. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 47, pp. 187–198.

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2017-04-12

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2017-05-17

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2017

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This paper was published in the journal Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2017.04.007.

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1369-8478

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  • en

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