ATMS human factors experiments produce design guidelines

Public Roads, Spring, 1997 by Nazemeh Sobhi, Michael J. Kelly

* Location of CCTV monitors.

* Appropriate division of functions among center operators.

A preliminary edition of human factors design guidelines for TMC design was based on existing standards and guidelines from other applications. This edition was distributed for review in October 1995 and is currently being revised to include the results of the Georgia Tech experiments. The second edition of the Human Factors Handbook for Advanced TMC Design will be published within the next few months.

Nazemeh Sobhi is a highway research engineer in the Office of Safety and Traffic Operations Research and Development of the Federal Highway Administration. Her expertise is in human factors aspects of intelligent transportation systems. She received a bachelor's degree in computer science from Radford University in 1987 and a master's degree in transportation engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1989. Currently, she is a doctoral candidate in civil engineering at the University of Maryland.

Michael J. Kelly is a principal research scientist and head of the Human Factors Branch at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. He is the principal investigator on the study to develop a handbook of human factors design guidelines for advanced transportation management centers based on simulator research and on lessons learned by existing centers. He received his doctorate in engineering psychology from The Johns Hopkins University in 1975.