Citation

Davis SJ, Pugliese BJ, Barton BK. Transp. Res. F Traffic Psychol. Behav. 2019; 67: 205-216.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.trf.2019.11.002

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Pedestrian injury is a costly and all-too-common form of unintentional injury. The pedestrian's task is complex, requiring individuals to glean information from the environment and make judgments based on that information. Previous pedestrian safety research has included both visual and auditory perceptual cues. Few studies, however, have specifically focused on examining the unique strengths and weaknesses of vision and audition in the pedestrian task. We therefore posit future pedestrian safety research should give more detailed consideration to the perceptual modalities involved in the pedestrian task. The human factors literature contains theories and frameworks which pedestrian safety researchers and practitioners may use to conceptualize the perceptual components of the pedestrian's tasks. We propose a multimodal approach to pedestrian safety research comprising two broad principles drawn from the perceptual modality literature: independence and dominance. We discuss the principles in the context of how each principle may inform pedestrian safety research as well as injury prevention efforts.

Language: en

Keywords

Attention; Audition; Distraction; Modalities; Pedestrian safety; Vision