Drivers' beliefs about exceeding the speed limits

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 376-389

  Wallén Warner, Henriette ^a   Åberg, Lars ^a  

^a DALARNA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Belief based measures; Direct measures; Interventions; Speeding; TPB

Indexed keywords

TRANSPORTATION;

BELIEF BASED MEASURES; DIRECT MEASURES; INTERVENTIONS; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; PERCEIVED BEHAVIOURAL CONTROLS; SPEEDING; SUBJECTIVE NORM; THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOUR;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 48049103031     PISSN: 13698478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trf.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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