RESEARCH ON HUMAN VARIABLES IN SAFE MOTOR VEHICLE OPERATION: A CORRELATIONAL SUMMARY OF PREDICTOR VARIABLES AND CRITERION MEASURES

STATISTICAL ABSTRACTS ARE PRESENTED IN COLUMN FORM OF THE MAJOR RESEARCH EXPERIMENTS IN HUMAN VARIABLES LITERATURE. AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO CORRELATE WHEREVER POSSIBLE PREDICTOR VARIABLES AND CRITERION MEASURES FOUND IN THESE EXPERIMENTS. THE FOLLOWING PREDICTOR VARIABLES ARE PRESENTED: (1) DRIVING BEHAVIOR VARIABLES, (2) VISUAL MEASURES, (3) REACTION TIME MEASURES, (4) PSYCHOMOTOR VARIABLES, (5) PAPER-PENCIL PSYCHOMOTOR TESTS, (6) SENSORY PERCEPTUAL TESTS, (7) COGNITIVE MEASURES, (8) PERSONAL, EMOTIONAL, ATTITUDINAL MEASURES, (9) BACKGROUND, SOCIOLOGICAL MEASURES, (10) FATIGUE, (11) AGE, AND (12) EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • 31 Pp, 111 REF
• Corporate Authors:

  George Washington Transportation Research Institute. Center for Intelligent Systems Research

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• Authors:
  • Goldstein, L G
• Publication Date: 1961-6

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age; Alcohols; Attitudes; Behavior; Drivers; Fatigue (Physiological condition); Human factors; Perception; Reaction time; Research; Reviews; Social factors; Statistical analysis; Vision
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver reaction
• Old TRIS Terms: Driver vision
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00222771
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 14 1970 12:00AM