Short Communication An illusory size-speed bias and railway crossing collisions

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 55, Issue , 2013, Pages 226-231

  Clark, Helen E ^a   Perrone, John A ^a   Isler, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Level crossing collisions; Motion perception; Size speed illusion; Speed perception

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; LEVEL CROSSING; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR VEHICLE; RAILWAY LEVEL CROSSING; RELATIVE SPEED ESTIMATIONS; SIMULATED ENVIRONMENT; SIZE-SPEED ILLUSION;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; RAILROAD CROSSINGS; RAILROADS;

SPEED;

ADULT; CAR; CAR DRIVING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILLUSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RAILWAY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; YOUNG ADULT; ARTICLE;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; AUTOMOBILES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; RAILROADS; SIZE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876112508     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2013.02.037     Document Type: Article

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