Journal article
Cognitive compatibility of motorcyclists and car drivers
Accident Analysis and Prevention, Vol.43(3), pp.878-888
2011
Abstract
Incompatibility between different types of road user is a problem that previous research has shown to be resistant to a range of interventions. Cars and motorcycles are particularly prone to this. Insight is provided in this paper by a naturalistic method using concurrent verbal protocols and an automatic, highly reliable semantic network creation tool. The method shows how the same road situation is interpreted differently by car drivers and motorcyclists in ways congruent with wider accident rates. Analysis of the structure and content of the semantic networks reveals a greater degree of cognitive compatibility on faster roads such as motorways, but evidence of more critical incompatibilities on country roads and junctions. Both of these road types are implicated in helping to activate cognitive schema which in turn generate stereotypical behaviors unfavourable to the anticipation of motorcyclists by car drivers. The results are discussed in terms of practical measures such as road signs which warn of events behind as well as in front, cross-mode training and the concept of route driveability.
Details
- Title
- Cognitive compatibility of motorcyclists and car drivers
- Authors
- Guy H Walker (Author) - Heriot-Watt University, United KingdomNeville A Stanton (Author) - University of Southampton, United KingdomPaul M Salmon (Author) - Monash University
- Publication details
- Accident Analysis and Prevention, Vol.43(3), pp.878-888
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd.
- Date published
- 2011
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.aap.2010.11.008
- ISSN
- 0001-4575
- Organisation Unit
- Centre for Human Factors and Systems Science; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450149802621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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