Age-related differences in street-crossing decisions: The effects of vehicle speed and time constraints on gap selection in an estimation task

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 934-943

  Lobjois, Régis ^a   Cavallo, Viola ^a  

^a Institute of Research on Transportation and Safety   (France)

Author keywords

Aging; Decision; Gap acceptance; Pedestrian; Risk; Time to arrival

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPEED CONTROL;

ESTIMATION TASK; GAP ACCEPTANCE; TIME-TO-ARRIVAL; VEHICLE DISTANCE;

DECISION THEORY;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TIME PERCEPTION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WALKING;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; WALKING;

EID: 34548500814     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2006.12.013     Document Type: Article

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