Human factors in Traffic Management. State-of-the-Art Background Document

TrafficQuest is constantly taking stock of the state of affairs in the field of traffic management and the direction being taken by developments. Traffic management is on the threshold of significant change. Countless new developments will make it possible to deploy traffic management more effectively and more proactively across the entire network, but further research is first necessary to achieve this. This is why the booklet "The future of traffic management" ["De toekomst van verkeersmanagement"] has been published with a research agenda. The booklet is available on the TrafficQuest website (www.traffic-quest.nl). While writing this booklet, TrafficQuest collected a huge amount of background material on a wide range of traffic management aspects. This material is being published in a series of reports, all of which have the following structure: • What is it about? • What is the State-of-the-Practice in the Netherlands? • What is the State-of-the-Practice in other countries? • What is the benefit? • What is the perspective for the future? This report focuses on the above questions in relation to the subject of Human Factors in Traffic Management. However, the question ‘What is the State-of-the-Practice?’ is not discussed in this report, but it will be discussed at a later date.