Driver Behaviour and Training - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754638359 ISBN 13: 9780754638353

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2003

Synopsis

Research on driver behaviour over the past two decades has demonstrated that driver characteristics, goals and motivations are important determinants of driving behaviour. We are now in a position to apply this knowledge to driver training programs and evaluate their effectiveness in improving safety. The main objective for the First International Conference on Driver Behaviour and Training and this book, is to describe and discuss recent advances in this field. The book bridges the gap between practitioners in road safety, and theoreticians investigating driving behaviour from a number of different perspectives and related disciplines. It will encourage research in driver training to combat erroneous or deviant driving behaviour and/or reduce the effects of human error at source. This book will be of interest to road safety researchers and road safety practitioners in the private and public sector.

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Review

'Lisa Dorn's book is...timely and a welcome addition to the field...The book will particularly appeal to academics, researchers and postgraduates on courses where there is an element of safety or driver improvement involved in the programme or dissertation...It should also be read by practitioners, those selling and those implementing driver development programmes.' Logistics and Transport Focus 'The editor has done an excellent job in bringing these papers from the first International Conference on Driver Behaviour and Training, held late 2003, so quickly to the marketplace. ... ' The book' s organization provides for a good topic balance and a strength of the collection is that it includes topics that rarely find journal space, for example, crash injuries to women drivers and vehicle design for the pregnant driver.' Ergonomics, Vol 48 no 7, June 2005

About the Author

Dr Lisa Dorn is Director of the Driving Research Unit, Human Factors Group, at Cranfield University. She is also an invited member of the UK Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a Chartered Psychologist and member of the International Association of Applied Psychology: Traffic and Transportation Psychology Division. Dr Dorn has published a number of journal papers on driver behaviour, driver stress and risk and is a regular contributor to the public debate at conferences and in the national media on the psychology of driving. Currently, Dr Dorn is working with major organisations such as Arriva Passenger Services Ltd UK and Europe and the UK Home Office to improve driver training. Recently, Dr Dorn has been involved in research for the UK Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR) on driver fitness and health. Contributors include: David Best, Lisa Dorn, Julie Gandolfi, Steve McInally, Anders E. af Wahlberg, Lucy Garwood, Noloyiso Mankazana, M. Anthony Machin, Fran Ridout, A. Winstock, K. Wolfe, Ian Hindmarch, Niels Galley, Robert Schleicher, Lars Galley, Judith K. Sluiter, Monique H.W. Frings-Dresen, Mark J.M. Sullman, Karl B. Pajo, Michelle Meadows, Adrian Taylor , Francoise Anceaux, Marie-Pierre Pacaux, Nicolas Halluin, Bako Rajaonah, Jean-Christophe Popieul, Rainer Hoger Ruhr, Christoph Mayser, Ismail Maakip, Tara A. Kazi, Neville A. Stanton, D. Harrison, Mengyan Lin, A.A. Popov, S. McWilliam, Nils Petter Gregersen, Torbjorn Falkmer, Susanne Gustafsson, Mika Hatakka, E. Keskinen, Nils Petter Gregersen, A. Glad and K. Hernetkoski, Helen Muncie , Marcel B.F. Uhr, Daniel Felix, Bryn J. Williams , Helmut Krueger, R. Wade Allen, Theodore J. Rosenthal, George Park, Marcia Cook, Celine Goupil, David Sharpley, Peter Russell, Frederique Obriot-Claudel, Catherine Gabaude.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0754638359
• ISBN 13: 9780754638353
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Dorn Dr. Lisa