Effects of mobile telephone tasks on driving performance: A driving simulator study

Advances in Transportation Studies

Volumn , Issue 26, 2012, Pages 29-44

  Benedetto, A ^a   Calvi, A ^a   D'Amico, F ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Driving simulator; Hand held; Hands free; Mobile phone; Reaction time

Indexed keywords

CELL PHONE; CELLULAR PHONE; DECELERATION RATE; DRIVING CONDITIONS; DRIVING PERFORMANCE; DRIVING SAFETY; DRIVING SIMULATOR; DRIVING SIMULATOR STUDY; HAND-HELD; HANDS-FREE; INTERACTIVE DRIVING SIMULATORS; MAIN EFFECT; MOBILE TELEPHONES; ROAD SAFETY; ROAD USERS; TEXTING; URBAN ROAD;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; AUTOMOBILE SIMULATORS; CELLULAR TELEPHONES; EXPERIMENTS; HUMAN REACTION TIME; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; ROADS AND STREETS;

MOBILE PHONES;

EID: 84859561571     PISSN: 18245463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4399/97888548465863     Document Type: Article

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