Longer Combination Vehicles and road safety

Transport

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 336-343

  Grislis, Aivis ^a  

^a Dept of Road Transport   (Latvia)

Author keywords

Accidents involving LCVs; Configurations of LCVs; Driver behavior; Longer Combination Vehicles (LCVs); Road safety performance of LCVs

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS; BRAKING PERFORMANCE; DRIVER TRAINING; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; ROADS AND STREETS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; TRACTORS (TRUCK); TRANSPORTATION; TRUCK TRAILERS; VEHICLE PERFORMANCE; VEHICLES;

CONFIGURATIONS OF LCVS; DRIVER BEHAVIOR; DRIVER TRAINING PROGRAMS; ENGINEERING FACTORS; LONGER COMBINATION VEHICLES; ROAD SAFETY; TECHNICAL IMPROVEMENT; TRACTOR SEMI TRAILERS;

LIGHT WEIGHT VEHICLES;

EID: 78650379581     PISSN: 16484142     EISSN: 16483480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/transport.2010.41     Document Type: Article

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