Summary Report: Advanced Traffic Management Simulator To Support Development Of Human Factors Design Guidelines

Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office;Federal Highway Administration1995PDFBriefGeorgia Tech Research InstituteUnited States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Turner-Fairbank Highway Research CenterUnited States. Joint Program Office for Intelligent Transportation SystemsUnited StatesAdvanced traffic management systemsDesignHuman factors engineeringSimulationTraffic control centersTraining simulatorsHuman factorsFHWA-RD-95-126The original format of this document was an active HTML page(s). The Federal Highway Administration converted the HTML page(s) into an Adobe\uae Acrobat\uae PDF file to preserve and support reuse of the information it contained. Preservation Date: 2020-09-08. The intellectual content of this PDF is an authentic capture of the original HTML file. Hyperlinks and other functions of the HTML webpage may have been lost, and this version of the content may not fully work with screen reading software.Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS) will be instrumental in minimizing traffic congestion and delays. Part of the ATMS research program involves investigating the human factors requirements of Traffic Management Center (TMC) operators using real-time descriptions of roadway status to manage traffic flow. How the operator shares his or her tasks with automation is basic to the development of a successful TMC design. At present, the advantages and limits of automated systems in a TMC are not yet well defined. In order to investigate these and other human factors issues, Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is developing a real-time, interactive traffic management simulator, which accurately mimics the traffic management setting and tasks of the TMC operator. The simulator is briefly described in this summary report, along with the human factors issues embedded in TMC operations that GTRI is exploring. The results of GTRI's studies on this subject will be translated into TMC design guidelines and incorporated into an ATMS TMC human factors engineering design handbook, which is expected around December 1995.121