Human engineering in school zones
Sreten Jevremović, Dragan A. Savic, Predrag Janjić · Transportation research procedia · 2019
School zones represent specific locations that are very difficult to manage, primarily due to the category of traffic users and then because of the characteristics of the environment itself. In certain time periods, the most frequent users of these zones are the most vulnerable groups: children or parents with children, and for this reason typical traffic solutions often do not give the desired result regarding the regulation and organization of the mentioned zones. In the Republic of Serbia such locations are spatially very often part of the "zone 30" or near them, which requires the use of different traffic signs and different project solutions. Dynamic traffic as well as parked vehicles, further complicate the situation, primarily because they make difficulties in traffic management, while on the other hand, they prevent drivers from perceiving children in a timely manner. For the above reasons, different solutions and higher level of management are required in these locations. These solutions must be intuitively logical and simple for all traffic users and especially for children, bearing in mind their behavior and characteristics. For years, traffic trends have been giving interesting solutions to these problems. The two ideas that will be applied in this paper are the concept of human engineering, which is focused on people and applied to bring engineering closer to the real needs of man, that is, to respond to the problems of contemporary society, combined with the current IoT (Internet of Things) concept. The aim of this paper is to give the conceptual solution of the selected school zone in Belgrade, through the concepts of IoT and Human engineering, with the idea of improving the communication and traffic safety and creating a comfortable environment for all users.