An analysis of the effect of roadway design on driver's workload

Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Pellegrino, Orazio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Image analysis; Instrumented vehicle; Mental workload; Road design; Road safety; Visual behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149164817     PISSN: 1822427X     EISSN: 18224288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/1822-427X.2009.4.45-53     Document Type: Article

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