Driver Behaviour and Training, Vol. 3 (Human Factors in Road and Rail Transport)

✍ Scribed by Lisa Dorn

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 476
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Research on driver behaviour over the past two decades has clearly demonstrated that driver's goals and motivations are important determinants of driver behaviour. The importance of this work is underlined by statistics: WHO figures show that road accidents are predicted to be the number three cause of death and injury by 2020 (currently more than 20 million deaths and injuries p.a.).The objective of the third volume, and of the conference on which it is based, is to describe and discuss recent advances in the study of driving behaviour and driver training. It bridges the gap between practitioners in road safety, and theoreticians investigating driving behaviour, from a number of different perspectives and related disciplines.A major focus is to consider how driver training and education needs to be adapted to raise awareness of the personal characteristics that contribute to unsafe driving behaviour with the aim of developing and reporting interventions to improve road safety. The contributors consider the novice driver problem, emotions and driver behaviour, at-work road safety, technological interventions, human factors and the road environment and rider behaviour.The readership for this volume includes researchers from a variety of different academic backgrounds, senior practitioners in road safety, including regulatory authorities, the police service, and private and public sector personnel working with drivers and motorcyclists.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 14
Preface......Page 18
Part 1 The Novice Driver Problem......Page 20
1 How Do ‘Significant Others’ Influence Young People’s Beliefs About Driving?......Page 22
2 Piloting a Telemetric Data Tracking System to Assess Post-training Real Driving Performance of Young Novice Drivers......Page 36
3 Fault Correction or Self-Assessment: Which Way Forward?......Page 50
4 New Elements in the Dutch Practical Driving Test: A Pilot Study......Page 56
5 Personality and Attitudinal Predictors of Traffic Offences Among Young Drivers: A Prospective Analysis......Page 70
6 Pre-driving Attitudes and Non-driving Road User Behaviours: Does the Past Predict Future Driving Behaviour?......Page 84
7 Prediction of Problem Driving Risk in Novice Drivers in Ontario: Part II Outcome at Two Years......Page 94
Part 2 Emotions and Driver Behaviour......Page 108
8 A Review of Studies on Emotions and Road User Behaviour......Page 110
9 A Comparison of the Propensity for Angry Driving Scale and the Short Driving Anger Scale......Page 126
10 Aggression and Non-aggression Amongst Six Types of Drivers......Page 136
11 The Influence of Age Differences on Coping Style and Driver Behaviour......Page 148
Part 3 At Work Road Safety......Page 160
12 Effects of Organisational Safety Culture on Driver Behaviours and Accident Involvement Amongst Professional Drivers......Page 162
13 Stages of Change in the Australian Workplace and its Application to Driver Education......Page 174
14 Prospective Relationships between Physical Activity, ‘Need for Recovery’ and Driver Accidents and Absenteeism......Page 186
15 Predicting High Risk Behaviours in a Fleet Setting: Implications and Difficulties Utilising Behaviour Measurement Tools......Page 194
16 Driver Celeration Behaviour in Training and Regular Driving......Page 208
17 A Study of Contemporary Modifications to the Manchester Driver Behaviour Questionnaire for Organisational Fleet Settings......Page 220
18 A Comparison of Seat Belt Use Between Work Time and Free Time Driving Among Turkish Taxi Drivers......Page 234
19 A Review of Developing and Implementing Australian Fleet Safety Interventions: A Case Study Approach Update......Page 246
20 Designing a Psychometrically Based Self-Assessment to Address Fleet Driver Risk......Page 254
Part 4 Technological Interventions, Driver Behaviour and Road Safety......Page 268
21 Development of Multimedia Tests for Responsive Driving......Page 270
22 The Effect of Simulation Training on Novice Driver Accident Rates......Page 284
23 Driving Experience and Simulation of Accident Scenarios......Page 296
24 Investigating the Contexts in which In-Vehicle Navigation System Users Have Received and Followed Inaccurate Route Guidance Instructions......Page 310
25 Comparison of Novice Drivers in Austria and the Czech Republic With and Without the Use of Intelligent Speed Adaptation......Page 330
Part 5 Human Factors and the Road Environment......Page 342
26 What Factors are Involved in Crashes, How Do We Measure Them and What Shall We Do About Them?......Page 344
27 Driver Training and Assessment: Implications of the Task-Difficulty Homeostasis Model......Page 356
28 Do We Really Drive by the Seat of Our Pants?......Page 368
29 The Impact of Subjective Factors on Driver Vigilance: A Driving Simulator Study......Page 386
30 The Use of Local Case Review Panels to Determine Contributory Factors Crash Data......Page 398
31 The Effectiveness of New Seat Belt Legislation in Northern Ireland......Page 408
Part 6 Rider Behaviour......Page 416
32 An Evaluation of the Portuguese Moped Rider Training Programme......Page 418
33 Flow, Task Capability and Powered Two-Wheeler (PTW) Rider Training......Page 434
34 Understanding Inappropriate High Speed by Motorcyclists: A Qualitative Analysis......Page 444
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