How does the UK national speed awareness course achieve its effects?

The UK National Speed Awareness Course, which can be offered to offender motorists as an alternative to a prosecution for speeding, increases intentions to drive within the speed limit. The course achieves its effects by providing information that challenges drivers' attitudes towards speeding, persuading them that there is a reason why speed limits are set at a particular level and by convincing them that the driving environment is more hazardous than they had appreciated. The course gives motorists knowledge of how to improve their driving and increased self-efficacy to identify and drive within the speed limit. They gain greater insight into their own driving, including the pressures that they face whilst driving and the limits to their own knowledge. (A)

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• Authors:
  • Fylan, F
• Publication Date: 2013-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 30-1
• Monograph Title: Fit to drive. Proceedings of the 7th International Traffic Expert Congress. Berlin, April 25th-26th 2013
• Serial:
  • Schriftenreihe Fahreignung
  • Publisher: Kirschbaum Verlag

Subject/Index Terms

• ITRD Terms: 2267: Attitude (psychol); 9001: Behaviour; 8525: Conference; 8125: Germany; 9112: Impact study; 9048: Modification; 1508: Offender; 1591: Retraining of drivers; 624: Speed limit; 1841: Speeding; 8119: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01552223
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt)
• ISBN: 978-3-7812-1889-5
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Feb 2 2015 10:22AM