Judgments about collision in younger and older drivers

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 63-80

  DeLucia, Patricia R ^a   Bleckley, M Kathryn ^a   Meyer, Les E ^a   Bush, Jason M ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Collision detection; Driving; Time to contact; Transportation; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037972187     PISSN: 13698478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-8478(02)00047-5     Document Type: Article

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