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COMPLEMENTARITY AS AN AXIOMATIC FRAMEWORK FOR BEHAVIOURAL RESEARCH IN TRAFFIC SAFETY: A YOUNG DRIVER CASE --TRAFFIC SAFETY THEORY AND RESEARCH METHODS. APRIL 26-28, 1988, AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS. SESSION 1: CONTEXT AND SCOPE OF TRAFFIC SAFETY THEORY

Young drivers are high profile subjects of much speculation, hypothesis and empirical study. Jurists and traffic safety researchers ask questions such as "why young drivers drive the dangerous way they do" and "how may we account for this risky behaviour". By trying to answer these questions, researchers have become aware of the pathological premise that there is something inherently wrong or deviant about young drivers. Each research perspective done before entails however a singular approach. No attempt has been made to combine the approaches to develop a holistic understanding of young drivers. A master model for young drivers research orientations is the single greatest need in accident studies. Hence, the next step is to further the research paradigma whereby singular research perspectives are avoided, data are integrated and every day lifestyle features are addressed. This article proposes a step albeit a small one, towards developing a conceptual framework to interrelate data into a behavioural image of young drivers. The following description of the framework entitled complementarity on the conceptual configuration and research data which are extracted from a year long study of young drivers in British Columbia. For the covering abstract of the conference, session i, see IRRD 813194.

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  • English

Media Info

  • Pagination: 30 p.

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00481787
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
  • Files: ITRD, TRIS
  • Created Date: Apr 30 1989 12:00AM