Incorporating Human Factors Guidelines into Transportation Projects, Programs, and Practices

The Human Factors Guidelines (HFG) for road systems serves as a reference to assist practitioners in safety, operations, and design. The HFG aims to develop a greater understanding of road users’ capabilities and limitations and how these issues could be incorporated into transportation agencies' decision-making processes. A fourth edition of the HFG is currently under development as part of the NCHRP Project 22-46. This edition seeks to document the best available human factors and road user interactions research and practices in road safety analyses and design to optimize data-driven safety analysis and decision-making. Although significant efforts have been made to develop the HFG and support its use, many practitioners are not familiar with the guidelines, and even fewer utilize them. As the transportation community continues to work toward zero traffic fatalities and serious injuries, it is necessary to promote widespread use of the HFG so that a data-driven approach on how road users interact with the roadway environment contributes to traffic safety efforts that are underway. Furthermore, it is important to acknowledge that within the Safe System Approach (SSA), there is a need to create self-enforcing/self-explaining roads. Achieving this will require the integration of vital human factor knowledge into design and operational systems to support the SSA. Research is needed to develop an implementation plan to enhance awareness, promote the use of available resources for implementation, and identify additional needs for the successful deployment of the HFG. The objective of this research is to develop an implementation plan to help incorporate the use of HFG into state departments of transportation’s (DOTs) decision-making process, and support expanding and integrating human factors more thoroughly into transportation projects, programs, and practices.

• Record URL:
  • http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=5535

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $450,000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 20-130

• Sponsor Organizations:

  State Departments of Transportation (participating member states of American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO))

  American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO)
  444 North Capitol Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Project Managers:

  Zhao, Yi

• Performing Organizations:

  Exponent

  Bellevue, WA  United States 
• Principal Investigators:

  Campbell, John L

• Start Date: 20260316
• Expected Completion Date: 20280315
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Decision making; Guidelines; Highway design; Highway operations; Human factors; Project management; State departments of transportation
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01889422
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 20-130
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Jul 31 2023 4:26PM