A model for explanation of personal attitudes toward traffic of candidate drivers attending drivers' courses: Risky candidate driver's attitude model

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 233-241

  Yilmaz, Veysel ^a   Çelik, H Eray ^a  

^a ESKISEHIR OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Candidate drivers; Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis; Traffic

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; DATA ACQUISITION; RISK ANALYSIS; STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL;

CANDIDATE DRIVERS; CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; RULE OBEDIENCE; TRAFFIC FLOW;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 44449085356     PISSN: 13698478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trf.2007.10.003     Document Type: Article

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