Professional and non-professional drivers' stress reactions and risky driving

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 32-40

  Öz, Bahar ^a   Özkan, Türker ^b   Lajunen, Timo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Accident involvement; Driver behaviours; Driver stress; Non professional drivers; Professional drivers; Risky traffic behaviours; Speeding

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HAZARDS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TAXICABS;

ACCIDENT INVOLVEMENT; DRIVER BEHAVIOUR; PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS; RISKY TRAFFIC BEHAVIOURS; SPEEDING;

ACCIDENTS;

EID: 72049095905     PISSN: 13698478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trf.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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