The technical report consists of a collection of task analytic data to support heavy vehicle driver workload assessment and protocol development. Data were collected from professional drivers to provide insights into the following issues: the meaning of the term 'workload' to heavy vehicle drivers; the demand placed on drivers by various driving conditions using a psychological scaling approach; the safety criticality and difficulty of selected standard driving tasks; the perceptual, motor, and cognitive loads imposed by various tasks while on the road under various conditions; and a preliminary analysis of the key features of generic high-technology in-cab devices. When professional truck drivers speak of workload, they tend to talk in terms of time stress or stress caused by delays to their schedules. Various driving conditions were unidimensionally scaled in terms of order of impact on drivers, and those results are presented and discussed. Safety criticality and difficulty assessment results provided some validation for the scaling outcomes. Visual allocation measures in this study suggested that the use of common in-cab tasks would serve as baseline measures, based on the revenue runs. Finally, key features considered in evaluating voice communication systems, vehicle navigation and route guidance systems, single/integrated displays, and text communication devices were determined.
Heavy Vehicle Driver Workload Assessment. Task 3. Task Analysis Data Collection. Final Report Supplement
1996
88 pages
Report
No indication
English
Road Transportation , Transportation Safety , Heavy duty vehicles , Driving tasks , Task analysis , Data collection , Interviews , Highway safety , Human factors , Driver perception , Driver skills , Driver behavior research , Driving conditions , Navigation systems , Routing , Communication systems , Truck drivers , Perceptual loads , Behavior research , Display systems , In-cab device interaction
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