An experimental approach towards the evaluation of a seat belt campaign with an inside view on the psychology behind seat belt use

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 600-613

  Brijs, Kris ^a,b   Daniels, Stijn ^a   Brijs, Tom ^a   Wets, Geert ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b PHL University College   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Campaign; Evaluation; Habit; Repeated behaviour; Seat belt; Theory of Planned Behaviour

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVEYS;

CAMPAIGN; EVALUATION; HABIT; REPEATED BEHAVIOUR; SEAT BELT; THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOUR;

AUTOMOBILE SEAT BELTS;

EID: 80055085357     PISSN: 13698478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trf.2011.07.003     Document Type: Article

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