The life cycle of the policy for preventing road accidents: An empirical example of the policy for reducing drunk driving crashes in Taipei

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 809-818

  Chang, Hsin Li ^a   Yeh, Chun Chih ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Drunk driving; Life cycle theory; Poisson regression models

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; CRASHWORTHINESS; DECISION MAKING; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PUBLIC POLICY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DRUNK DRIVING; LIFE CYCLE THEORY; POISSON REGRESSION MODELS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; HUMAN; LAW ENFORCEMENT; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POLICY; SAFETY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TAIWAN; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; HUMANS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PUBLIC POLICY; SAFETY; TAIWAN;

EID: 2942604372     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2003.07.005     Document Type: Article

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