Increasing seat belt use: Two field experiments to test engineering-based behavioral interventions

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Volumn 23, Issue , 2014, Pages 133-146

  Van Houten, Ronald ^a   Reagan, Ian J ^b   Hilton, Bryan W ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Driver acceptance; Engineering based behavioral intervention; Seat belt use

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; TRANSPORTATION;

ACCELERATOR PEDALS; BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTIONS; DRIVER ACCEPTANCE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; INTERLOCK SYSTEMS; INTERVENTION PERIOD; SEAT BELT USE; TEST ENGINEERING;

AUTOMOBILE SEAT BELTS;

EID: 84893283231     PISSN: 13698478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trf.2013.12.018     Document Type: Article

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