Ensuring road safety on the basis of engineering-psychological evaluation of drivers labour

Abstract

Abstract The analysis of the causes for the vehicle drivers’ faults is realized. It is established that the most significant cause of erroneous actions is a number of faults, caused by the unique feature task, as well as characteristics of the reduced information. This circumstance determines the use of engineering psychology methods. The engineering and psychological evaluation of the truck driver depending on the vehicle speed and the driving mode (overtaking the “leader” from the course and transition to the driving mode after the “leader”) is realized. These studies allow us to obtain the dependence of the average speed of information processing SL and the total complexity indicator of the SD algorithm on the movement speed. Recommendations on improvement of the driver’s labour organization which decrease the faults probability and increase the traffic safety are formulated.