User attitudes to automated highway systems

Author

Chalmers, I.J.

Author_Institution

The Highways Agency, UK

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

6

Lastpage

10

Abstract

The paper reports on research undertaken for the Highways Agency in the UK on user attitudes and acceptance of intelligent vehicle and highway systems including: 1. An international review of research activities, government policies and deployment plans for intelligent vehicle systems (IVS) and automated highway systems (AHS) and of previous work carried out by leading researchers on user attitudes to these systems. 2. A market research programme involving qualitative and quantitative research that has been conducted to assess attitudes and levels of social acceptance of automated highway technologies among different categories of road users

Keywords

automated highways; human factors; interactive systems; research initiatives; social aspects of automation; user interfaces; AHS; IVS; automated highway systems; deployment plans; government policies; intelligent vehicle and highway systems; international review; market research programme; quantitative research; research activities; road users; social acceptance; user acceptance; user attitudes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, 2001. ADAS. International Conference on (IEE Conf. Publ. No. 483)

Conference_Location

Birmingham

ISSN

0537-9989

Print_ISBN

0-85296-743-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/cp:20010489

Filename

981373