Managing driver fatigue: Education or motivation?

Road and Transport Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 14-20

  Armstrong, Kerry ^a   Obst, Patricia ^a,b   Banks, Tamara ^a   Smith, Simon ^a  

^a School of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; DRIVER FATIGUE; FATIGUE COUNTERMEASURES; ROAD CRASH; TIME FACTORS;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; MOTIVATION;

DRIVER TRAINING;

EID: 78651364792     PISSN: 10375783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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