The Risk of a Safety-Critical Event Associated With Mobile Device Use in Specific Driving Contexts

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 124-132

  Fitch, Gregory M ^a   Hanowski, Richard J ^a   Guo, Feng ^a  

^a VIRGINIA TECH TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

cell phone; cognitive distraction; crash risk; driver distraction; driver error; texting

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CAR DRIVING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; MOTOR VEHICLE; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UTILIZATION;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ATTENTION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CELL PHONES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR VEHICLES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84922275179     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2014.923566     Document Type: Article

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