Towards an explanation of age-related difficulties in crossing a two-way street

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 85, Issue , 2015, Pages 229-238

  Dommes, Aurélie ^a   Lay, Tristan Le ^a   Vienne, Fabrice ^a   Dang, Nguyen Thong ^a   Beaudoin, Alexandra Perrot ^b   Do, Manh Cuong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GUSTAVE EIFFEL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Ageing; Cognition; Collisions; Mobility; Street crossing; Vision

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; CRASHWORTHINESS; CURBS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISION;

AGEING; BATTERY OF TESTS; COGNITION; COGNITIVE ABILITY; COLLISIONS; QUASI-EXPERIMENTS; STREET CROSSING; TRAFFIC ENVIRONMENT;

PEDESTRIAN SAFETY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; SAFETY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL ACUITY; WALKING; WALKING DIFFICULTY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILITY LIMITATION; SAFETY; VISUAL ACUITY; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84944065946     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2015.09.022     Document Type: Article

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