Overview
This third volume of Driver Behaviour and Training displays recent advances in the study of driving behaviour and driver training, how driver characteristics, goals and motivations contribute to unsafe driving behaviour, and the development of driver training courses that consider all the knowledge and skills essential for road safety.Research on driver behaviour over the past two decades has clearly demonstrated that driver's goals and motivations are important determinants of driver behaviour. The importance of this work is underlined by statistics: WHO figures show that road accidents are predicted to be the number three cause of death and injury by 2020 (currently more than 20 million deaths and injuries p.a.).
The objective of the third volume, and of the conference on which it is based, is to describe and discuss recent advances in the study of driving behaviour and driver training. It bridges the gap between practitioners in road safety, and theoreticians investigating driving behaviour, from anumber of different perspectives and related disciplines.
A major focus is to consider how driver training and education needs to be adapted to raise awareness of the personal characteristics that contribute to unsafe driving behaviour with the aim of developing and reporting interventions to improve road safety. The contributors consider the novice driver problem, emotions and driver behaviour, at-work road safety, technological interventions, human factors and the road environment and rider behaviour.
The readership for this volume includes researchers from a variety of different academic backgrounds, senior practitioners in road safety, including regulatoryauthorities, the police service, and private and public sector personnel working with drivers and motorcyclists.