Effects of foggy conditions on drivers' speed control behaviors at different risk levels

Safety Science

Volumn 68, Issue , 2014, Pages 275-287

  Yan, Xuedong ^a   Li, Xiaomeng ^a   Liu, Yang ^a   Zhao, Jia ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Crash involvement risk; Driving simulator; Foggy conditions; Speed control

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; EXPERIMENTS; RISK PERCEPTION; ROADS AND STREETS; SPEED; SPEED CONTROL;

ACCELERATION AND DECELERATION; DRIVING PERFORMANCE; DRIVING SIMULATION; DRIVING SIMULATOR; FOGGY CONDITIONS; LIMITED VISIBILITY; REAR-END COLLISIONS; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRIVER; DRIVING ABILITY; FEMALE; FOG; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SIMULATION; SPEED CONTROL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VELOCITY;

EID: 84900024653     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2014.04.013     Document Type: Article

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