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Designing VMS Sign Messages to Enhance Driving Safety
Author: Chun-Ming Yang
Publisher: VDM Publishing
Published: 2008-04-01
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9783836499118
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Behavioral Traffic Safety Messaging on Variable Message Signs
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Published: 2022
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780309687133
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Changeable, electronic, or dynamic message signs are used to provide real-time traffic information to drivers while en route to their destination. Many agencies also use these signs to display safety messages when the signs are not being used to display other traffic information. These types of messages encourage safe driving behaviors such as wearing seat belts and not drinking and driving. The TRB Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program's BTSCRP Research Report 3: Behavioral Traffic Safety Messaging on Variable Message Signs provides an evidence-based approach to help guide behavioral traffic safety message design and display on variable message signs.
Safety and Environmental Design Considerations in the Use of Commercial Electronic Variable-message Signage. Final Report
Development of Manuals for the Effective Use of Variable Message Signs. Final Report
Author: John S. Miller
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive research effort to develop operator's manuals for variable message signs (VMSs) was undertaken to improve the operations of both portable and permanent (fixed-site) VMSs in Virginia. This report describes the development of two manuals, the Permanent VMS Operator's Manual and the Portable VMS Operator's Manual which will be published separately. These manuals were based on information obtained from the literature, VMS operators, and motorists. Issues addressed by the manuals include when a VMS should be used, where a portable VMS should be placed, and the design of the VMS message. The manuals are not simply a list of pre-defined messages. They are a series of concise modules guiding the operator through the thought process required to use a VMS effectively. The operator follows a logical decision tree from module to module, to achieve the best placement and best message for a VMS. Effective VMS use actually requires a complex thought process, despite the apparent simplicity of the messages. The manuals include essential material about VMS operation. Based on theoretical calculations and motorists' experiences, it is strongly recommended that a VMS use no more than two message screens. A single message screen is preferred. VMSs should be used only to advise drivers of changed traffic conditions and convey specific traffic information concisely. Due to limited information capabilities, VMSs should be used in conjunction with other means of communication such as highway advisory radio and static signs. Most importantly, it is crucial that credibility be maintained. Incorrect information can have extreme consequences in terms of VMS effectiveness.
Enhancing Motorist Understanding of Variable Message Signs
Guidelines for the Use of Portable Changeable Message Signs
Author: American Traffic Safety Services Association. Sign Committee
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 12
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The Human Factors of Transport Signs
Author: Candida Castro
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2004-04-14
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0203457412
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The ubiquitous nature of transport signs on roadways, railways, and in airports can lead to an overload of visual information, yet little research has been done to understand the design and use of such signs from a driver‘s perspective. The Human Factors of Transport Signs explores key transport sign research and examines new technologies
Changeable Message Signs
Author: Conrad L. Dudek
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This synthesis will be of interest to traffic engineers in federal, state, provincial, and local transportation agencies who are responsible for the design and operation of safe and efficiency highway systems. It will also be useful to consulting traffic engineers, sign manufacturers, and vendors in the private sector who assist governmental clients in the application of changeable message sign (CMS) and other intelligent transportation systems (ITS) technology. It is an update of NCHRP Synthesis no. 61 (1979)."--Avant-propos.
