How common sense fails us on the road: Contribution of bounded rationality to the annual worldwide toll of one million traffic fatalities

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 259-269

  Sivak, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 0038458915     PISSN: 13698478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-8478(03)00003-2     Document Type: Article

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