Conference paper
An exploratory comparison of compliant and non-compliant decision making at actively controlled rail level crossings using the decision ladder
Proceedings of the 2014 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference
Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education (ARSRPE) Conference: It always seems impossible until it's done, 2014 (Melbourne, Australia, 12-Nov-2014–14-Nov-2014)
Australasian College of Road Safety
2014
Abstract
Collisions at rail level crossings (RLXs) present an ongoing major challenge for both road and rail safety organisations. Previous research has made little systematic attempt to understand road user decision making at RLXs, with most research relying on observational studies of single road user groups only. In this exploratory study, we applied Rasmussen's (1974) decision ladder (DL) for the first time in the RLX safety context to compare the decision making processes used during compliant and non-compliant encounters at RLXs. The data used to populate the DL was derived from a two-week diary study in which four groups of road users (drivers, motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians) described their encounters with actively controlled RLXs when a train was approaching. Ninety-five road users made a total of 247 crossings, 11.7 % of which were non-compliant (n = 29). Overall, the decision making processes differed between compliant and non-compliant encounters. On non-compliant encounters road users were least concerned with safety, based their decision making on a much smaller component of the RLX system, and proceeded further along the DL (i.e., considered multiple courses of action). The results of this study may have important implications for RLX designs, but firstly should be validated using larger samples of non-compliant encounters.
Details
- Title
- An exploratory comparison of compliant and non-compliant decision making at actively controlled rail level crossings using the decision ladder
- Authors
- C M Mulvihill (Author) - Monash UniversityPaul M Salmon (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and BusinessM G Lenne (Author) - Monash UniversityVanessa Beanland (Author) - Australian National UniversityNeville A Stanton (Author) - University of Southampton, United Kingdom
- Publication details
- Proceedings of the 2014 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference; 10
- Conference details
- Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education (ARSRPE) Conference: It always seems impossible until it's done, 2014 (Melbourne, Australia, 12-Nov-2014–14-Nov-2014)
- Publisher
- Australasian College of Road Safety
- Date published
- 2014
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2014 The Author. Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. This paper can be found in the online database of papers for this conference at http://acrs.org.au/publications/conference-papers/database/
- Organisation Unit
- Centre for Human Factors and Systems Science; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449323602621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
- Research Statement
- false
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