This document serves a guide to the basic concepts involved and issues to be addressed by National Park Service (NPS) staff in the of acquisition of vehicles, supporting infrastructure, as well as information on the need for maintenance facilities and specialized staff to operate and maintain transportation system to serve visitors to national parks, recreation areas, historic sites, and monuments. It identifies engineering principles and practices, codes and standards, and lessons learned that are applicable to the NPS. It contains numerous references to other publications and electronic links to websites for more in depth information.
The primary goal of the MNWR Alternative Transportation Study is to identify transportation intervention options that could improve alternative transportation access to MNWR. While this study focuses primarily on MNWR, it takes into account important relationships to transportation within Chatham as a whole, particularly related to the downtown area and access to the federally owned Lighthouse Beach. The study identifies interventions that: improve multi-modal access to MNWR and within Chatham, reduce traffic and parking congestion around MNWR and within Chatham, improve traveler safety, enhance the visitor experience and develop and enhance partnerships with governmental and non-governmental agencies.
This study examines issues relevant to the implementation of an alternative transportation system designed to facilitate the movement of visitors throughout the park and, potentially, to sites of historical and recreational interest located outside the boundaries of the park. It provides an initial analysis of existing conditions at Minute Man NHP, and then considers various alternative transportation services (ATS) options in light of these conditions. ATS options include shuttle, tour, pedestrian and bicycle systems that can be implemented or expanded at Minute Man NHP.
This is the final report of a project to review JPDO documents as they pertain to human-automation interaction, review past system failures in aviation and other contexts involving human-automation interaction, conduct a workshop of JPDO, NASA and academic experts in the area, perform analyses of selected problems, and make recommendations for NASA research needed to support JPDO on these aspects of NGATS. This report first reviews reports issued separately on the failures review and the workshop findings as well as several papers and technical notes. Recommendations for needed research in human-automation interaction are then detailed.
A road safety audit (RSA) is a formal safety examination of a future roadway plan or project or an in-service facility that is conducted by an independent, experienced multidisciplinary RSA team. All RSAs should include a review of pedestrian safety; however, some RSAs may be conducted to improve an identified pedestrian safety problem. The Pedestrian Road Safety Audit Guidelines and Prompt Lists provides transportation agencies and teams conducting an RSA with a better understanding of the needs of pedestrians of all abilities.
This report reviews 37 accidents in aviation, other vehicles, process control and other complex systems where human-automation interaction is involved. Implications about causality with respect to design, procedures, management and training are drawn. A number of caveats and recommendations from the salient literature are discussed with respect to human-automation interaction.
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