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Risk compensation--the case of road lighting
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The results show that drivers do compensate for road lighting in terms of increased speed and reduced concentration, which means that road lighting could have a somewhat larger accident-reducing effect, if compensation could be avoided.About:
This article is published in Accident Analysis & Prevention.The article was published on 1999-09-01. It has received 120 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Poison control.read more
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Structural interventions in public health.
TL;DR: This framework suggests nine kinds of structural interventions, and it is possible to identify examples of each kind of intervention across a range of public health issues.
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Road Traffic Congestion and Crash Severity: Econometric Analysis Using Ordered Response Models
TL;DR: The results suggest that the level of traffic congestion does not affect the severity of road crashes on the M25 motorway, and all other factors included in the models also provide results consistent with existing studies.
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A study of factors affecting highway accident rates using the random-parameters tobit model.
TL;DR: Using 9-year data from urban interstates in Indiana, a random-parameters tobit regression model is employed to account for unobserved heterogeneity in the study of motor-vehicle accident rates and the empirical results show that the random- parameters tobit model outperforms its fixed-parameter counterpart and has the potential to provide a fuller understanding of the factors determining accident rates on specific roadway segments.
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Tobit analysis of vehicle accident rates on interstate highways.
TL;DR: This study explores the application of an alternate method, tobit regression, by viewing vehicle accident rates directly (instead of frequencies) as a continuous variable that is left-censored at zero.
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Effects of weather and weather forecasts on driver behaviour
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of adverse weather and traffic weather forecasts on driver behavior in Finland were investigated. And the results suggest that the on-road driving behaviour is predominantly affected by the prevailing observable conditions, rather than traffic weather forecast.
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The Theory of Risk Homeostasis: Implications for Safety and Health
TL;DR: An attempt has been made to conceptually integrate the available evidence with respect to the role of human behavior in the causation of road accidents to show that the accident rate is ultimately dependent on one factor only, the target level of risk in the population concerned.
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Risk homeostasis theory: an overview
TL;DR: There is an odd coexistence between two conflicting safety policies that may well be pursued by the same accident prevention agency; neither is likely to reduce the injury rate, because people adapt their behaviour to changes in environmental conditions.
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The use of psychophysiology to assess driver status
Karel Brookhuis,Dick de Waard +1 more
TL;DR: Impairment of driving performance was measured in a standard driving test and in a recently developed car-following test (reaction to speed changes of a leading car).
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An investigation of behavioural adaptation to airbags and antilock brakes among taxi drivers
TL;DR: The headway results support the hypothesis of larger compensation for accident-reducing than for injury-red reducing measures, and the relationship of driving behaviour to two different kinds of in-car safety equipment, airbags and antilock braking systems is addressed.
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Review of relationships between steering wheel reversal rate and driving task demand
TL;DR: In this paper, the steering wheel reversal rate (SRR) and driving task demand are discussed in terms of a set of theoretical assumptions proposed by W. A. Macdonald and E. R. Hoffmann (1978), and it is argued that whether the relationship is positive or negative depends on the level of task difficulty relative to the driver's capacity to cope with it.