Older female drivers: An emerging transport safety and mobility issue in Australia

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 515-522

  Oxley, Jennifer ^a   Charlton, Judith ^a   Scully, Jim ^a   Koppel, Sjaanie ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Countermeasures; Crash risk; Functional performance; Gender; Older driver; Travel patterns

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CRASH INVOLVEMENT; CRASH RISK; CURRENT DRIVERS; DRIVING ABILITIES; DRIVING PATTERN; DRIVING SITUATIONS; FUNCTIONAL ABILITIES; FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE; NEGATIVE MOBILITY; OLDER DRIVERS; OLDER FEMALE; SAFE DRIVING; SELF-ASSESSMENT; SUBSTANTIAL DISTANCES; TRANSPORT SAFETY; TRAVEL PATTERNS;

CRASHWORTHINESS; HEALTH RISKS;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAR DRIVING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL CONTROL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL;

EID: 76049106835     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2009.09.017     Document Type: Article

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