RSP Module 3: Human Behavior and Road Safety
Human factors, or how users of the roadway system interact with the environment, is a critical element to understand the causes of many fatal and serious injury crashes. This webinar explores how human factors work for or against roadway safety, and how various tools and educational strategies can be used to influence human behavior. The specific areas covered include human factors basics, safety strategies to address human behavior, road user education strategies, law enforcement strategies, roadway design impact on human behavior, the importance of incorporating human factors into safety planning and programming, positive guidance principles for user safety, and the driving task model and road user error.

Learning Objectives

• Identify key characteristics and limitations of human behavior that influence how road users interact with the environment
• Describe multidisciplinary safety strategies to modify human behavior
• Describe the key characteristics of effective educational strategies and discuss their benefits and limitations in modifying human behavior
• Describe and give examples of how roadway infrastructure features and elements affect human behavior
• Describe why human factors should be considered in the process of planning, design, and operations to increase the safety of all road users
• Describe how applying positive guidance principles to road elements can be used to affect road user behavior and improve safety performance
• Apply the driving task model to the process of identifying contributing factors to road user error