How does road marking in horizontal curves influence driving behaviour?

The role of attention in horizontal curves: a comparison of advance warning, delineation, and road marking treatments.

Horizontal curves have been recognized as a significant safety issue for many years, a more important factor than road width or sight distance. The research literature suggests that driver errors associated with horizontal curves result from three inter-related problems: failures of driver attention, misperceptions of speed and curvature, and poor lane positioning. To examine the roles of atten...

Road-edge delineation in rural areas: effects on driving behaviour.

When driving on lower-category Dutch rural roads without any delineation, drivers are likely to drift off the road with their right-side wheels, thus incurring damage to the pavement edge or even leading to accidents. In two experiments, two types of road-edge delineation, with continuous or dashed edge lines, were compared with two control roads without lines or with only a dashed line on the ...

How does the beetle cross the road?

Not very successfully at all, according to a recent study which suggests that the high density of roads in many areas may be creating isolated populations of these key invertebrates, reducing genetic heterogeneity and increasing the possibility of local extinctions. Irene Keller and Carlo Largiader at the University of Berne, Switzerland, have carried out a study on the large, flightless ground...

How does climate influence speciation?

Variation in climatic conditions over space and time is thought to be an important driver of speciation. However, the role of climate has not been explored in the theoretical literature on speciation, and the theory underlying empirical studies of climate and speciation has come largely from informal, verbal models. In this study, we develop a quantitative model to test a relatively new but the...

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