THE INVOLVEMENT OF INDEPENDENT TOURISTS IN AUTOMOBILE COLLISIONS: EVIDENCE FROM HAWAII AND THE UNITED STATES
Independent tourists often travel by automobile. This gives them the freedom to go where they want, at their convenience. The independent traveler tends to venture to more remote or distant places. While the independent tourist may be more affluent and educated, they are at higher risk of injury and fatality as a result of automobile collisions. This paper examines the nature of independent tourist involvement in automobile collisions. Different hypotheses regarding tourist driving behavior are formulated. Are tourists more risky than other drivers? Are they more likely to be involved in certain types of collisions? Or are they more likely to operate certain types of vehicles? Empirical analyses of tourist involvement in collisions in Hawaii is undertaken.
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Authors:
- Kim, Karl
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Conference:
- Proceedings of the Conference: Road Safety in Europe and Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP)
- Location: Prague, Czech Republic
- Date: 1995-9-20 to 1995-9-22
- Publication Date: 1996-3
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: v.p.
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Serial:
- VTI Conferens
- Publisher: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
- ISSN: 0347-6049
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Behavior; Crashes; Drivers; Research; Risk taking; Statistics; Tourists; Travel behavior
- Geographic Terms: Hawaii
- Old TRIS Terms: Collision statistics; Travel habits
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00723238
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: No. 4A, Part 2
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jul 5 1996 12:00AM