Between several transport systems one of the most used is the road, for the freedom that such modality guarantees to user, above all in case of good working. The relative statistics, concerning the phenomenon of the accident, attribute to the human factor the responsibility of beyond 83%. This last data has contributed to assume that, within the complex system "man-vehicle-infrastructure-environment", greater importance to the interaction "man-infrastructure", so towards the infrastructure characteristics, the dimension of the section, the visibility, the presence of different vehicles, the perception of the spaces, etc., influencing the control of the vehicle, from part of the users, in more or less favorable environmental conditions. The road is the environment in which vehicles moves and with which the driver, through the vehicle, interacts. For this reason it is important that the environment transmits, to the user, clear marks, so that the corrected behaviour comes favourite. Once the functions involved in the guide are defined it is necessary to find the role of these in the design. It is interesting to verify in that way and to that level, within the search and the normative systems, it is dealing with the relationship between technical choices and effects induced on the user. This work proposes to evidence actual state of the art regarding the role assumed from the user in the design, with reference to proposals from the wide panorama of research and of Italian, European and American normative system. The objective of the present article, that constitutes only the first phase of a wide research on the same topic, is to supply an outline of the situation of main design rules, inside of which, are considered the human elements.
Human element and design rules: state of the art
PINNA, FRANCESCO;PIRAS, CLAUDIA
2005-01-01
Abstract
Between several transport systems one of the most used is the road, for the freedom that such modality guarantees to user, above all in case of good working. The relative statistics, concerning the phenomenon of the accident, attribute to the human factor the responsibility of beyond 83%. This last data has contributed to assume that, within the complex system "man-vehicle-infrastructure-environment", greater importance to the interaction "man-infrastructure", so towards the infrastructure characteristics, the dimension of the section, the visibility, the presence of different vehicles, the perception of the spaces, etc., influencing the control of the vehicle, from part of the users, in more or less favorable environmental conditions. The road is the environment in which vehicles moves and with which the driver, through the vehicle, interacts. For this reason it is important that the environment transmits, to the user, clear marks, so that the corrected behaviour comes favourite. Once the functions involved in the guide are defined it is necessary to find the role of these in the design. It is interesting to verify in that way and to that level, within the search and the normative systems, it is dealing with the relationship between technical choices and effects induced on the user. This work proposes to evidence actual state of the art regarding the role assumed from the user in the design, with reference to proposals from the wide panorama of research and of Italian, European and American normative system. The objective of the present article, that constitutes only the first phase of a wide research on the same topic, is to supply an outline of the situation of main design rules, inside of which, are considered the human elements.
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