DRIVER BEHAVIOR - SAFE AND UNSAFE DRIVERS
A CONTINUATION OF THE WORK COVERED IN R.R.L. REPORT LR 70 (ABSTRACTS 38 (2) 4, 1968) IS DESCRIBED. TWO GROUPS OF CAR DRIVERS DROVE AROUND A 12 MILE ROUTE UNDER NORMAL TRAFFIC CONDITIONS. AGAIN, ONE GROUP CONSISTED OF 50 DRIVERS WHO HAD BEEN CONVICTED OF CARELESS DRIVING, WHILE THE OTHER GROUP CONSISTED OF 50 DRIVERS CHOSEN AT RANDOM. EACH DRIVER WAS ACCOMPANIED BY TWO OBSERVERS, BOTH OF WHOM OBSERVED CERTAIN ITEMS OF DRIVER BEHAVIOR WHILE ONE OBSERVER RECORDED THE OBSERVED DATA. RESULTS SHOWED THAT THE FOLLOWING THREE ITEMS OF DRIVING BEHAVIOR (DRIVE INDICES) WERE SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT BETWEEN THE GROUPS OF DRIVERS, WITH THE CARELESS GROUP HAVING HIGHER VALUES THAN THE RANDOM GROUP - RISKS TAKEN, THE RATIO OF OVERTAKING TO BEING OVERTAKEN AND THE OCCURENCE OF UNNECESSARY MANOEUVERS. USING THE SAME METHOD OF CLASSIFYING DRIVERS AS IN THE PREVIOUS STUDY (I.E. INTO SAFE, INJUDICIOUS, DISSOCIATED ACTIVE AND DISSOCIATED PASSIVE), THE NUMBERS OF DRIVERS IN EACH SUB-GROUP WERE, RESPECTIVELY, FOR THE CARELESS GROUP - 18, 6, 12, 14 AND FOR THE RANDOM GROUP - 33, 1, 4, 12. /AUTHOR/
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Supplemental Notes:
- Lr 146, 23 PP
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Authors:
- Quenault, S W
- Publication Date: 1968
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Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Behavior; Classification; Drivers; Passing; Safety; Testing; Weaving traffic
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00222756
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: Rrl Report Lr 124
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Sep 30 1994 12:00AM