How Can the Safety Culture Perspective be Applied to Road Traffic?

Transport Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 139-154

  Nævestad, Tor Olav ^a   Bjørnskau, Torkel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROAD TRANSPORT; SAFETY; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84858039218     PISSN: 01441647     EISSN: 14645327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2011.628131     Document Type: Article

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