Speed and acceleration as measures of driving style in young male drivers

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-16

  Lajunen, Timo ^a,b   Karola, Juha ^a   Summala, Heikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRIVER LICENCE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MOTION; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AUTOMOBILE DRIVER EXAMINATION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0031203408     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1997.85.1.3     Document Type: Article

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