Road user behaviour changes following a self-explaining roads intervention

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 50, Issue , 2013, Pages 742-750

  MacKie, Hamish W ^a   Charlton, Samuel G ^b   Baas, Peter H ^a   Villasenor, Pablo C ^a  

^a Transport Engineering Research NZ Ltd   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Road user; Safety; Self explaining roads; Video

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOUR; CRASH COSTS; CRASH DATA; DRIVING BEHAVIOUR; IN-VEHICLE; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; ROAD DESIGN; ROAD ENVIRONMENT; ROAD NETWORK; ROAD USERS; SELF EXPLAINING ROADS; SPEED CHANGE; VIDEO; VIDEO DATA;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; ROADS AND STREETS; SPEED;

HIGHWAY PLANNING;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CAR DRIVING; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; NEW ZEALAND; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VIDEORECORDING;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BEHAVIOR; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84870291767     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2012.06.026     Document Type: Article

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