IIID Traffic Guiding Systems Source Material -
Evaluation Method
The IIID Traffic Guiding Systems Source Material is based on an inquiry
among the participants of the 2006 IIID Expert Forum Traffic Guiding Systems.
About 300 sources (literature and standards/ regulations) got nominated
and were categorized:
- Bicycle Route Signage
- Colour
- Evaluation
- General
- Inclusive Information Design
- Lettering
- Methods & Theory
- Others
- Parking Signage
- Perception
- Pictogram
- Public Information Symbols
- Road Signage
- Safety Signs
- Signage Design
- Signage for hiking routes, ski-slopes, cross country ski runs and
related infrastructure
- Terminal / Station Signage
- Typography
- Variable Message Signs
- Wayfinding
The contributors were:
Prof. José Allard, Michael Atteneder, Martin Bodenstorfer, Veronika
Egger, Prof. Heiner Erke, Diana Frank, Tina Frank, Mikael Fuhr, Prof.
Brigitte Hartwig, Harry Hinneberg, Olaf Hoffmann, Florian Koeck, Alexandra
Kocher, Hörður Lárusson, Heike Nehl, Helmut Ness, Christoph
Rastbichler, Sandra Reichenauer, Hans Remeijn, Juan Pablo Rioseco, Prof.
Hanna Risku, Claus Michael Semmler, Peter Simlinger, Josef Soegner, Florian
Szeywerth, Vincent van der Heijden, Thomas Vavrinek, Jan Weinberger.
IIID subsequently invited 19 experts from America, Asia, and Europe to
evaluate the entries. They judged the material on whether it should be
recommended or not.
The following experts contributed:
- Gordon Akwera, Lead Design Strategist at Addison, New York, NY, US
- Prof. José Allard, Escuela de Diseño, Pontificia Universidad
Católica de Chile, Santiago, CL
- Andrew Baker, Director of Davis Associates Ltd, Human factors consultancy,
Potters Bar, Herts, GB
- Prof. Stefan Bald, Head of "Fachgebiet Straßenwesen mit
Versuchsanstalt, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, DE
- Veronika Egger, Principal of is design, Wien/Vienna, AT
- Tina Frank, Partner of designby frank scheikl, Wien/Vienna, AT
- Prof. Jorge Frascara, IT; Professor emer. of Art and Design, University
of Alberta, Edmonton, CA
- Colette Jeffrey, Coventry University, GB
- Keiichi Koyama, Managing Director of i Design inc., Tokyo, JP
- Antonio Lucas, INTRAS (Road Safety and Traffic Institute), University
of Valencia, ES
- Prof. Paul Mijksenaar, head of the Visual Information Group at Technical
University of Delft, NL, principal of design agency 'Mijksenaar', Amsterdam,
NL, and New York, NY, US
- Prof. Dr. Tech. Per Mollerup, Managing Director of Mollerup Designlab
A/S, Frederiksberg, DK, Professor of simplicity at the Norwegian Academy
of Arts, Oslo, NO
- ir Hans Remeijn, Rijkswaterstaat - AVV Transport Research Centre,
Rotterdam, NL
- DI Peter Simlinger, Principal of Simlinger Informations-Design GmbH,
Wien/Vienna, AT, director of the International Institute for Information
Design (IIID), Wien/Vienna, AT
- Michael Smuc, Department for Knowledge and Communication Management,
Danube University Krems, AT
- Prof. Dr. Erik Spiekermann, Principal of SpiekermannPartners, Berlin,
DE, San Francisco, US, London, GB
- Rupesh Vyas, Coordinator of the Information and Digital Design programme
at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, IN
Experts only evaluated source material which related to their professional
activities: every entry got scrutinized by either three or five experts.
This resulted in top scores like 3 of 3 or 5 of 5.
Lowest scores were 1 of 3 resp. 1 of 5.
To indicate the scores on a scale of five, evaluations done by three
experts had to be adjusted:
1 out of 3 possible approvals: Rating 1,5
2 out of 3 possible approvals: Rating 3,5
3 out of 3 possible approvals: Rating 5
Sources which got one or more than one denial were deleted from the list,
sources unknown to the experts or resulting in a "?" were taken
on, provided they got at least one "OK".
Source material, unknown (or questioned) to/by the evaluators, was followed
up by the IIID director if deemed of relevance/interest.
Subsequently a few additional titles got listed.
The final list contains about 170 entries out of the 300 that had been
originally suggested.
Additional nominations
Several of the evaluating experts suggested additional literature.
Since these nominations have not yet been evaluated, ratings are not available.
Research into signage and wayfinding at stations / Good practice and
wayfinding technology literature review", contributed by Andrew Baker, Davis
Associates Limited, GB, has been made available - for IIID members only
- under "Additional Nominations".
Abstracts
In most cases such are available either from Amazon or the cited web
sites of the respective publishers: go to "Search" and click
on "Details". Availability of a few titles could not be indicated -
IIID will consider steps to ensure that short descriptions of all recommended
sources are added not before long.
Access and links to Amazon
Access to literature categorized "General" is offered to all
visitors of this web site - free of charge. Access to the other categories
is restricted to IIID members. They may log in with the access data provided
to them by IIID.
Further steps
It became evident, that standards/regulations, published in a language
other than English, are of limited value to the international visitors
of this web site. Thus IIID will ask members of the Expert Network Traffic
Guiding Systems to see that more and more countries are covered and, above
all, to pay special attention to ISO standards and British and American
sources.
It also became clear that many relevant publications are not as widely
known as one might tend to assume. To derive at an undisputed body of
knowledge IIID will be setting steps to encourage continued discussions
on essential literature, standards and regulations with the aim to identify
what's really of value to the profession.
It is hoped that the now available bibliography will stimulate IIID members
and friends to engage in developing analogue bibliographies of other information
design subject areas.
Acknowledgement
IIID is grateful to the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation
and Technology (BMVIT) for the financial support granted to this project.
The IIID Expert Forum Traffic Guiding Systems, supported by the Austrian
Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT), took
place in Vienna in autumn 2006.