Urgent alarms in trucks: Effects on annoyance and subsequent driving performance

IET Intelligent Transport Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 252-258

  Fagerlonn J ^a  

^a INTERACTIVE INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CHARACTERISTIC; AUDITORY WARNING; AUDITORY WARNING SIGNALS; CRITICAL EVENTS; DRIVING PERFORMANCE; HEAVY VEHICLE; IN-VEHICLE; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; STRESS LEVELS; TRAFFIC ENVIRONMENT; UNEXPECTED EVENTS;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; AUTOMOBILES; BRAKES; SEMANTICS; TRUCK DRIVERS;

TRUCKS;

EID: 82955207148     PISSN: 1751956X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-its.2010.0165     Document Type: Conference Paper

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