A Major Study of Driver's Driving Behavior

This paper presents a study on driver behavior in traffic accidents. The paper states that India currently has the highest number of traffic deaths, followed by China, the United States (US) Russia and the United Kingdom (UK). Human error currently plays a major role most traffic accidents. This paper concentrates on reaction time, stress tolerance and driving skills in order to correlate driver behavior and accident causes. The paper has three objectives: (1) to study the drivers behavior and attitudes in city driving; (2) to study the drivers behavior and attitudes in highway driving; and (3) to compare driver behavior under stress.

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• Authors:
  • Kumar, L Vinoth
  • Chakrabarty, Neelima
  • Umadevi, G
• Publication Date: 2015-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 273-274
• Serial:
  • Traffic Engineering & Control
  • Volume: 56
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Hemming Group, Limited
  • ISSN: 0041-0683
  • Serial URL: http://www.tecmagazine.com/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Crash causes; Crash data; Drivers; Fatalities; Human error; Reaction time; Stress (Psychology); Traffic crashes
• Geographic Terms: China; India; Russia (Federation); United Kingdom; United States
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01581275
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 24 2015 9:28AM