About the Book
Research on driver behaviour over the past two decades has clearly demonstrated that the goals and motivations a driver brings to the driving task are important determinants for 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 this second edition, 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 a number of different perspectives and related disciplines. A major focus is to consider how driver training needs to be adapted, to take into account driver characteristics, goals and motivations, in order to raise awareness of how these may contribute to unsafe driving behaviour, and to go on to promote the development of driver training courses that considers all the skills that are essential for road safety. As well as setting out new approaches to driver training methodology based on many years of empirical research on driver behaviour, the contributing road safety researchers and professionals consider the impact of human factors in the design of driver training as well as the traditional skills-based approach. Readership includes road safety researchers from a variety of different academic backgrounds, senior practitioners in the field of driver training from regulatory authorities and professional driver training organizations such as the police service, and private and public sector personnel who are concerned with improving road safety.
Table of Contents:
1: Driver Training and Education; 1: Interactive Scenario Modelling for Hazard Perception in Driver Training; 2: An Analysis of the National Driver Improvement Scheme by Referral Type; 3: Assessment of Driving Training Courses; 4: Driver Education BSM Driving Instructor Training Programme; 5: Should Driver Education Include Training Against Instinctive Human Reactions?; 6: Cars, Sex, Drugs and Media: Comparing Modalities of Road Safety and Public Health Messages; 2: Simulation and In-Vehicle Technology; 7: Novice Driver Performance Improvement with Simulator Training; 8: Truck and Bus Driver Training, Can Simulation Contribute?; 9: The Potential to Enhance Older Drivers' Critical Driving Skills Through Simulator-Based Advice; 10: Microsimulation of Traffic for Safety Study of In-Vehicle Intelligent Transportation Systems; 11: Assessing Drivers' Level of Trust in Adaptive Cruise Control and Their Conceptual Models of the System: Implications for System Design; 3: Young Driver Behaviour and Road Safety; 12: Driver Education – A Difficult but Possible Safety Measure; 3: Identifying Young Driver Subtypes: Relationship to Risky Driving and Crash Involvement; 14: Development and First Evaluation of a Prediction Model for Risk of Offences and Accident Involvement Among Young Drivers; 15: Assessment of a Diary to Study Development of Higher-Order-Skills During Driving Experience; 16: Young Drivers' Attitudes Towards Risks Arising from Hazardous Driving Behaviours; 17: Prediction of Driving Accident Risk in Novice Drivers in Ontario: The Development of a Screening Instrument; 18: Seat-Belt Use by Spanish Adolescents; 4: Vulnerable Road Users; 19: Designing Powered Two Wheeler Training to Match Rider Goals; 20: Understanding the Increasing Trend of Motorcycle Fatalities: Rider Error, Driver Error or Training Error?; 21: Driving at Fifteen: Assessment of Moped Rider Training Among Teens; 22: Vulnerable Road User Safety: Social Interaction on the Road?; 5: Personality, Emotions and Driving; 23: The Transactional Model of Driver Stress and Fatigue and its Implications for Driver Training; 24: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the Driving Anger Scale; 25: The Effect of Sensation-Seeking on Driver Fatigue; 26: The Use of Group Dynamics in a Driver Rehabilitation Course; 6: At-Work Road Safety; 27: Factors Influencing the Behaviour of People Who Drive at Work; 28: A Qualitative Analysis of Company Car Driver Road Safety; 29: Development of the Police Driver Risk Index; 30: Fatigue-Related Driver Behaviour in Untrained and Professional Drivers; 31: Predictors of Coach Drivers' Safety Behaviour and Health Status; 32: Comparing IT-Based Driver Assessment Results Against Self-Reported and Actual Crash Outcomes in a Large Motor Vehicle Fleet; 33: Differential Accident Involvement of Bus Drivers; 34: The Safety Value of Driver Education in Nigeria: An Assessment of Professional Driver Behaviour; 7: Crash Analysis; 35: The Application of Systems Engineering Techniques to the Modelling of Crash Causation; 36: The Application of Accident Script Analysis to Truck Crashes; 37: Non-Linear Methods for the Identification of Drivers at Risk to Cause Accidents; 8: Driver Attention and Knowledge; 38: Use of the d2 Test of Attention as a Predictor of Driving Proficiency; 39: Mental Models and Attentional Processes in Car Driving; 40: What Drivers Don't Know; 41: Transfer of Useful Field of Vision from Team Sports to Driving Skills in a Simulated Driving Test; Conclusion; Driver Coaching: Driving Standards Higher
About the Author :
Dr Lisa Dorn is Director of the Driving Research Group, Department of Human Factors, at Cranfield University, UK. 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 Transport Psychology Division. Dr Dorn started conducting research in driver behaviour in 1988 and has published a number of journal papers on driver behaviour, driver stress and driver training. She 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 on work-related road safety and driver training and has been involved in research for the UK Department for Transport and the Driver Vehicle Licensing Agency on driver fitness and health. Abs Dumbuya, N. Reed, G. Rhys-Tyler, Q .J. Zhao, R.L. Wood, Ian Edwards, Lee Martin, Catriona Rae, Steve Stradling, Susan McCormack, Anthony C. Hastings, Anne Morphett, Zoe Sofoulis, R. Wade Allen, Marcia L. Cook, George D. Park, Torbjorn Falkmer, Jerry Wachtel, Matthew R.E. Romoser, Donald L. Fisher, Konstantin Sizov, Ronald Mourant, Ata M. Khan, Akihira Fukutomi, Sarah J. Taylor, Jennifer M. Armstrong, Tara A. Kazi, Neville A. Stanton, Mark S. Young, D. A. Harrison, Nils Petter Gregersen, Lisa Wundersitz, N. Burns, Antje Biermann, Eva-Maria Eick, Roland Brunken, Gunter Debus, Detlev Leutner, Saskia de Craen, Divera A.M. Twisk, A. Ian Glendon, Laurence Jerome, A. Segal, Monica Cunill, M. Eugenia Gras, Mark J.M. Sullman, Montserrat Planes, Paul Broughton, Simon Labbett, Martin Langham, Patricia Antonio, Manuel Matos, Mario Horta, Ian Walker, Gerald Matthews, Amanda K. Emo, Gregory J. Funke, Thomas Vohringer-Kuhnt, Katja Karrer, N. Schlienz, Monica Dias, Silvino Indias Cordeiro, Catrion
Review :
'This book gives researchers and practitioners in the field of road safety and driver education a perfect opportunity to obtain frontline knowledge in their field. The chapters cover many interesting subjects such as theoretical modelling, cognitive psychology, educational strategies and practical training tools. It also provides many ideas for further research and applications in driver training for several road user groups from moped riders to truck drivers.' Professor Nils Petter Gregersen, University of Linkoping, Sweden
