Title:
Traffic and transport psychology : theory and application : proceedings of the ICTTP 2004
Publication Information:
Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2005
ISBN:
9780080443799
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Summary
Summary
Just as our transport systems become more and more important to our economic and social well-being, so they become more and more crowded and more at risk from congestion, disruption, and collapse. Technology and engineering can provide part of the solution, but the complete solution will need to take account of the behaviour of the users of the transport networks.
The role of psychologists in this is to understand how people make decisions about the alternative modes of transport and about the alternative routes to their destinations, to understand how novice and other vulnerable users can develop safe and effective behaviours, how competent users can operate within the transport system optimally and within their perceptual and cognitive limitations.
The contributions to this volume address these issues of how the use of our transport systems can be improved by taking into account knowledge of the behaviour of the people who use the systems. Topics discussed include driver training and licensing, driver impairment, road user attitudes and behaviour, enforcement and behaviour change, driver support systems, and the psychology of mobility and transport mode choice.
This work will be of value not only to psychologists but to all transport professionals interested in the application of psychology to traffic.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| Prologue | |
| 1 Traffic Psychology in a (New) Social Setting | p. 3 |
| Vulnerable Road Users I: Pedestrians and Cyclists | |
| 2 Using Epidemiological Data to Address Psychological Questions about Pedestrian Behaviour | p. 17 |
| 3 Rural and Urban Children's Understanding of Safety and Danger on the Road | p. 27 |
| 4 A Thematic Analysis of Children and Young Adults' Perceptions of Roadway Risk | p. 37 |
| 5 Are Differences in Children's Travel Reflected in Their Cognitive Maps? | p. 49 |
| 6 Criteria for Cyclists' Everyday Route Choice | p. 63 |
| Vulnerable Road Users II: Older Road Users | |
| 7 The Elderly Pedestrian and Social Representations | p. 79 |
| 8 Elderly Drivers' Hazard Perception and Driving Performance | p. 91 |
| 9 Assessment and Decision Criteria for Driving Competence in the Elderly | p. 101 |
| 10 The Rookwood Driving Battery and the Older Adult | p. 115 |
| Vulnerable Road Users III: Novice Drivers | |
| 11 What Do Novice Drivers Learn during the First Months of Driving? Improved Handling Skills or Improved Road User Interaction? | p. 129 |
| 12 "TRAINER" Project: Pilot Applications for the Evaluation of New Driver Training Technologies | p. 141 |
| 13 Profile of the British Learner Driver | p. 157 |
| 14 Effects of Lowering the Age Limit for Driver Training | p. 171 |
| Emotion and Personality | |
| 15 The Role of Attributions and Anger in Aggressive Driving Behaviours | p. 181 |
| 16 Developing the Driving Anger Scale | p. 191 |
| 17 Effects of Emotions on Optimism Bias and Illusion of Control in Traffic | p. 203 |
| 18 Big Five Personality Traits as the Distal Predictors of Road Accident Involvement | p. 215 |
| Automation and Information Systems | |
| 19 Mind Over Matter: Who's Controlling the Vehicle and How do We Know | p. 231 |
| 20 Adaptation Effects in an Automated Car-Following Scenario | p. 243 |
| 21 Evaluation of a DGPS Driver Assistive System for Snowplows and Emergency Vehicles | p. 257 |
| 22 ADAS' Acceptance and Effects on Behaviour: the Consequences of Automation | p. 273 |
| 23 Age, Previous Knowledge, and Learnability of Driver Information Systems | p. 279 |
| 24 Automated Driving Does not Work without the Involvement of the Driver | p. 293 |
| 25 The Role of Expectations in Interaction Behaviour between Car Drivers | p. 303 |
| Driving Performance I: Control and Workload | |
| 26 Cross Modal Effects in Transportation | p. 317 |
| 27 Regulation of Speed and Time-Headway in Traffic | p. 327 |
| 28 Speed, Traffic Complexity and Visual Performance: A Study on Open Road | p. 339 |
| 29 Effects of Motorway Lighting on Workload and Driving Behaviour | p. 355 |
| 30 A Study of Conversation Performance Using Mobile Phones while Driving | p. 369 |
| 31 Traffic Psychology Theories: towards Understanding Driving Behaviour and Safety Efforts | p. 383 |
| Driving Performance II: Perception and Awareness | |
| 32 Driver's Perception of Self-Explained Road Infrastructure and Architecture | p. 397 |
| 33 The Effect of Vehicle Navigation Systems on the Formation of Cognitive Maps | p. 407 |
| 34 Mental Representation of Traffic Signs: Role of Sign Complexity and Semantic Information | p. 419 |
| 35 Professional Driver Training and Driver Stress: Effects on Simulated Driving Performance | p. 431 |
| 36 Does Time Slow down in a Car Crash? Danger, Time Perception and Speed Estimates | p. 443 |
| 37 Driving without Awareness | p. 455 |
| 38 Prophylactic Naps Can Reduce Car Accidents Risk in Shift-Workers | p. 471 |
| Violation and Rehabilitation | |
| 39 Drivers and Traffic Laws: a Review of Psychological Theories and Empirical Research | p. 487 |
| 40 Why Do Drivers Speed? | p. 505 |
| 41 Effects of Speed Cameras on Driver Attitude and Behaviour | p. 513 |
| 42 What Shall We Do about Speeding-Education? | p. 521 |
| 43 Ways to Rehabilitate Drunken Drivers in Germany-Recruiting of Clients, Rehabilitation Programs, Evaluation | p. 529 |
| 44 Setting up and Assessing a Commitment Procedure in Rehabilitation Training Courses for Traffic Regulation Offenders in France | p. 539 |
| Travel Demand Management and Travel Mode Choice | |
| 45 Changes of Private Car Use in Response to Travel Demand Management | p. 551 |
| 46 Childhood Influences on Adult Travel Mode Choice | p. 573 |
| 47 Temporary Structural Change: a Strategy to Break Car-Use Habit and Promote Public Transport | p. 585 |
| Epilogue | |
| 48 Traffic Psychology and Road Safety: Separate Realities | p. 595 |
