RISKY BEHAVIOUR AT TRAFFIC SIGNALS: A TRAFFIC ENGINEER'S VIEW

Road accidents are reasonably predictable from a knowledge of traffic behaviour, although individual accident involvement is far less predictable. How do individuals perceive the relationship between their own involvement and objective accident risk? This question is explored in relation to Danish case studies of drivers' behaviour at traffic lights and different categories of pedestrians' 'jay-walking'. On this evidence, it seems unlikely that road users perceive accidents as random negative outcomes of everyday risk taking. Thus it also appears improbable that overall traffic accident risk in any society is a major function of deliberate risk taking by its individual road users. (a) this paper was included in the proceedings of a cec workshop on risky decision-making in transport held at the tno institute for perception, the Netherlands, 9-11 November 1986, (brown,i and janssen,w, editors).

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• Authors:
  • Jørgensen, Niels O
• Publication Date: 1988-4

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Media Info

• Pagination: p. 657-61
• Serial:
  • Ergonomics
  • Volume: 31
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISSN: 0014-0139
  • EISSN: 1366-5847
  • Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/terg20

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aptitude; Attitudes; Behavior; Conferences; Decision making; Drivers; Driving; Hazards; Pedestrians; Perception; Risk taking; Travelers
• Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00481872
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 30 2002 12:00AM