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William J. Horrey
Group Leader, Traffic Research Group
Biography
Dr. William J. Horrey joined the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety in August 2017 as the traffic research group leader. An experienced human factors professional, Dr. Horrey has led or contributed to many research projects in the areas of driver behavior and safety, human-automation interaction, attention and risk perception. He is the past chair of the Transportation Research Board’s Vehicle User Characteristics Committee and the current chair of the Publications Division of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. He is also an associate editor of the Human Factors Journal and has served on many national and international committees and working groups. He received his Ph.D. in engineering psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Publications
Driver’s Mental Models of Advanced Vehicle Technologies: A Proposed Framework for Identifying and Predicting Operator Errors
February 2021 // Technical Report
Examining the Increase in Pedestrian Fatalities in the United States, 2009–2018
January 2021 // Research Brief
The Impact of Driver’s Mental Models of Advanced Vehicle Technologies on Safety and Performance
June 2020 // Technical Report
External Publication
Age-related differences in the cognitive, visual, and temporal demands of in-vehicle information systems
2020 // Frontiers in Psychology
Effectiveness of Distracted Driving Countermeasures: A Review of the Literature
November 2019 // Research Brief