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May the occurrence of traffic participants' workload be programmed by the engineers?

This paper presents a hypothesis that the occurrence of a higher level of workload as well as a lower level of traffic participants´ performance can be caused by the simultaneous factors from working and traffic environment, which can be programmed by the engineers during the design and / or run transport processes, because of their lack of knowledge as well as lack of experience in expert work. By using a compilation of the findings from the past own studies for several different branches of transport, the need has been pointed out to implement learning based on own research results in cooperation with the real transport sector as well as the need to include graduate and doctoral students in the concrete research applied in the real transport sector. Also, the need to measure a real span of values for many different factors from traffic and working environment has been noted, due to the setting of research drafts for performance measuring in the laboratory conditions. Finally, some typical non-ergonomic situations from traffic and working environment in Croatia have been analyzed, for which the engineers who run those traffic processes are responsible. The highlight is on the need to educate the stakeholders to create awareness of high-quality Human Factors and Ergonomics and its contributions to transport processes design in Croatia.

non-ergonomic situations, environmental factors, workload, performance, competence of engineers

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