Performance-based measurement of national crisis management

Voyager was the biggest crisis management exercise ever held in The Netherlands. About 2000 professionals, ranging from fire-fighters to ministers and from local teams to the national crisis centre, participated in a complex multi-threat scenario. In order to learn from this exercise, an evaluation was carried out. The individual actors as such...

Human Factors, Security and Safety. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Europe Chapter

Improving Situational Awareness in camera surveillance by combining top-view maps with camera images

The goal of the experiment described is to improve today's camera surveillance in public spaces. Three designs with the camera images combined on a top-view map were compared to each other and to the current situation in camera surveillance. The goal was to test which design makes spatial relationships between camera images most intuitively...

Daytime running lights: Costs or benefits?

The present study deals with the possibility that road users in the vicinity of a vehicle with daytime running lights (DRL) would suffer from a decreased conspicuity because of (he presence of that vehicle. In an experiment the primary effects of DRL on the conspicuity of other road users were investigated, with particular attention to other...

Yellow lessens discomfort glare: Physiological mechanism(s)

Iteration in design processes

A "thinking roadsurface"

Comprehensibility of an assistance system that should facilitate merging at places where a motorway lane ends was evaluated in the advanced driving simulator of the University of Groningen. Main components of the system called 'Denkdek' ('Thinking road surface') are electronic speed limit signs, arrows stimulating to merge, and moving light (LED...