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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Cochairman’s Remarks Scope and Purpose of the Symposium
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Traffic Safety Trends—Contrasts and Explanations
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Observational Studies of Traffic-Related Human Behavior
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Driver Behavior Inferred from Field Accident Data
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What Can Be Done? Motivational Approaches to Modifying Driver Behavior
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About this book
This volume contains the papers and discussions from a Symposium on :'Hu man Behavior and Traffic Safety" held at the General Motors Research Labora tories on September 23-25, 1984. This Symposium was the twenty-ninth in an annual series sponsored by the Research Laboratories. Initiated in 1957, these symposia have as their objective the promotion of the interchange of knowledge among specialists from many allied disciplines in rapidly developing or chang ing areas of science or technology. Attendees characteristically represent the aca demic, government, and industrial institutions that are noted for their ongoing activities in the particular area of interest. of this Symposium was to focus on the role of human behavior The objective in traffic safety. In this regard, a clear distinction is drawn between, on the one hand, "human behavior," and on the other "human performance." Human per formance at the driving task, or what the driver can do, has been the subject of much research reported in the technical literature. Although clearly of some rel evance, questions of performance do not appear to be central to most traffic crashes. Of much more central importance is human behavior, or what the driver in fact does. This is much more difficult to determine, and is the subject of the Symposium.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Behavior and Traffic Safety
Editors: Leonard Evans, Richard C. Schwing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2173-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1985
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-9280-7Published: 01 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-2173-6Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 568
Topics: Psychology, general