Emergency vehicles that become accident statistics: Understanding and limiting accidents involving emergency vehicles

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 508-512

  Burke, C Shawn ^a   Salas, Eduardo ^a   Peter Kincaid, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY RESPONSE; EVENT BASED SIMULATION;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DRIVER TRAINING; ERGONOMICS; INTERNET; JOB ANALYSIS; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EMERGENCY VEHICLES;

EID: 0442310962     PISSN: 10711813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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