CONSIDERATIONS ON SPEED SELECTION AND RISK HOMEOSTASIS IN DRIVING

Risk-taking behavior by drivers is put within the context of a general model of utility maximization by speed choice. It is shown that so-called "risk homeostasis" is possible only under very restrictive conditions. Under more general conditions, risk compensation can occur; that is, the safety effects expected from engineering measures will be discounted to a considerable degree by shifts in behavior.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also TRIS 475747.
• Corporate Authors:

  Pergamon Press, Incorporated

  Headington Hill Hall
  Oxford OX30BW,    
• Authors:
  • Janssen, W H
  • Tenkink, E
• Publication Date: 1988-4

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 137-142
• Serial:
  • Accident Analysis & Prevention
  • Volume: 20
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0001-4575
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00014575

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Drivers; Hazards; Mathematical models; Risk assessment; Speed
• Uncontrolled Terms: Risk homeostasis
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00490045
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-040 452
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 31 1990 12:00AM