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Education and Training of Road Safety Auditors on the Implementation of Human Factors Principles in Safe Road Design

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Human Systems Engineering and Design (IHSED 2018)

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 876))

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Highway engineers are required to have the appropriate knowledge and tools to enable them to perform effectively in their work but must also be aware that road safety is everyone’s responsibility. The Greek road safety audit training program and educational materials developed for the training of engineers of highway projects who want to be certified as road safety auditors is the first official systematic effort for the training and certification of highway engineers working in the private and public sector. This paper presents the training objectives and an overview of the topic of ‘Human factors in safe road design’ of the training course and the educational material, which represents a new area in the training of highway engineers.

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  1. School of Civil Engineering, Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), ‎Athens, Greece

    Sophia Vardaki

  2. Center for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT), Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Evangelos Bekiaris

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  1. Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

    Tareq Ahram

  2. University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

    Waldemar Karwowski

  3. Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France

    Redha Taiar

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Vardaki, S., Bekiaris, E. (2019). Education and Training of Road Safety Auditors on the Implementation of Human Factors Principles in Safe Road Design. In: Ahram, T., Karwowski, W., Taiar, R. (eds) Human Systems Engineering and Design. IHSED 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 876. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02053-8_67

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