Using cognitive work analysis and the strategies analysis diagram to understand variability in road user behaviour at intersections

M Cornelissen; Paul M Salmon; Roderick McClure; Neville A Stanton

doi:10.1080/00140139.2013.768707

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Using cognitive work analysis and the strategies analysis diagram to understand variability in road user behaviour at intersections

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Using cognitive work analysis and the strategies analysis diagram to understand variability in road user behaviour at intersections

M Cornelissen, Paul M Salmon, Roderick McClure and Neville A Stanton

Ergonomics, Vol.56(5), pp.764-780

2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2013.768707

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cognitive work analysis

strategies analysis diagram

performance variability

road transport

In this article, an application of cognitive work analysis (CWA), using the strategies analysis diagram (SAD) method, to model performance variability in road transport, is presented. Specifically, the method was used to describe performance variability across four road user groups (drivers, cyclists, motorcyclists and pedestrians) when turning right at an urban signalised intersection. The analysis demonstrated that the method was able to identify a comprehensive range of strategies that road users can potentially use while turning right at an intersection, thereby describing a range of performance variability within intersection systems. Furthermore, the method identified constraints, disturbances, changes in circumstances and other influences on road user performance variability. It is concluded that the CWA/SAD approach was able to describe both the different ways in which activities can be executed and disturbances, situations and constraints that create performance variability. The implications of these findings for road design and intersection safety are discussed along with the benefits and drawbacks of the methodology used.

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Title: Using cognitive work analysis and the strategies analysis diagram to understand variability in road user behaviour at intersections
Authors: M Cornelissen (Author) - Monash University
Paul M Salmon (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Business
Roderick McClure (Author) - Monash University
Neville A Stanton (Author) - University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Publication details: Ergonomics, Vol.56(5), pp.764-780
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Date published: 2013
DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2013.768707
ISSN: 0014-0139
Organisation Unit: Centre for Human Factors and Systems Science; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99448939402621
Output Type: Journal article

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