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 objective of the Driver Behaviour and Training volumes, and of the conference on which they are based, is to describe and discuss recent advances in the study of this important area. It bridges the gap between practitioners in road safety and theoreticians investigating driving behaviour, from a number of different perspectives and related disciplines.
Educating drivers to be safe for life means a shift in focus from simply developing vehicle-handling skills towards ensuring that drivers are aware of how goals and motivations can influence decision-making throughout their driving career. A major focus within this fourth volume is to consider how driver training needs to be adapted in order to raise awareness of how human factors contribute to unsafe driving behaviour. From this it goes on to promote the development of driver education that considers all the skills that are essential for road safety.
The readership will include 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 organisations such as the police service, and private and public sector personnel.
Table of Contents:
Contents: Preface; Part 1 New Thinking in Driver Behaviour and Education: Driver research myths, A.E. af Wåhlberg; Recent findings on risky acts in adolescence: implications for understanding European drivers, Divera Twisk and Willem Vlakveld; A comparison of inexperienced and experienced drivers' cognitive and physiological response to hazards, Steve W. Kelly, Neale Kinnear, James Thomson and Steve Stradling; Development of driver performance assessment: informing learner drivers of their driving progress, Erik Roelofs, Marieke van Onna and Jan Visser; How can reflecting teams contribute to enhanced driving teacher learning?, Hilde Kjelsrud. Part 2 Driver Personality and Driver Offending: Understanding the unique contribution of aversion to risk-taking in predicting drivers' self-reported speeding, M. Anthony Machin and Janna E. Plint; Young drivers: investigating the link between impulsivity and problem driver status, Fearghal O'Brien, Simon Dunne and Michael Gormley; Relationships between driving style, self-reported driving behaviour and personality, S.M. Skippon, N. Reed, T. Luke, R. Robbins, M. Chattington and A.H. Harrison; Public perception of risk of being caught committing traffic offences, Isah Noradrenalina, M. Maslina and L.S. Kee; Rear seatbelt wearing in Malaysia: public awareness and practice, Norlen Mohamed, Muhammad Fadhli Mohd Yussoff and Isah Noradrenalina; The continuous evaluation of driver rehabilitation programmes in Austria, Julia Bardodej, Franz Nechtelberger and Martin Nechtelberger; Perceptions of the Spanish penalty point law, Maria Eugènia Gras, Silvia Font-Mayolas, Mark J.M. Sullman, Mònica Cunill and Montserrat Planes. Part 3 Powered Two Wheeler Behaviour: The role of the psychologist in a moped rider training programme, Patrícia António and Manuel Matos; Interim evaluation of the UK's national RIDE scheme, Cris Burgess, Paul Broughton, Fiona Fylan and Steve Stradling; Encouraging rider behaviour change by using respected communicators, Paul S. Broughton, Sandy Allan and Linda Walker; The motorcycle rider behaviour questionnaire (MRBQ) and commercial motorcycle riders in Nigeria, Oluwadiya Kehinde Sunday and Ladoke Akintola. Part 4 At Work Road Safety: Contemporary behavioural influences in an organisational setting and implications for intervention development, Bevan Rowland, Jeremy Davey, James Freeman and Darren Wishart; A review of the effectiveness of occupational road safety initiatives, Tamara Banks, Jeremy Davey, Herbert Biggs and Mark King; Developing risk assessment tools for fleet settings: where to from here?, James Freeman, Darren Wishart, Jeremy Davey and Bevan Rowland; From research to commercial fuel efficiency training for truck drivers using TruckSim, Nick Reed, Stephanie Cynk and Andrew M. Parkes; The utility of psychometric testing for predicting bus driver behaviour, Wendy Lord and Joerg Prieler; Identification of barriers to and facilitators for the implementation of occupational road safety initiatives, Tamara Banks and Jeremy Davey. Part 5 Human Factors and Driver Attention: An observational survey of driving distractions in England, Mark J.M. Sullman; Calibration of an eye-tracking system for variable message signs validation, M. Claudia Guattari, Maria Rosaria De Blasiis, Alessandro Calvi and Andrea Benedetto; Visual behaviour of car drivers in road traffic, Carmen Kettwich, Stefan Stockey and Uli Lemmer; Icons for actions in a driving simulator, Robert H. Barbour; Contributory factors for incidents involving local and non-local road users, Linda Walker and Paul S. Broughton; Severity of injury outcomes for older drivers involved in intersection crashes, Peter Hillard; Index.
About the Author :
Dr Lisa Dorn is Reader in Driver Behaviour, at Cranfield University. She is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a Chartered Psychologist and European Representative of the International Association of Applied Psychology: Traffic and Transportation Psychology Division. She has served on the Independent Police Complaints Commission's expert panel investigating police related road traffic incidents and advisor to the Association of Chief Police Officers. She has received the International Prince Michael Award for Road Safety for research and the Knowledge Transfer Programme's 'Best Application of Social or Management Science' in collaboration with Arriva Bus UK. Dr Dorn has published widely and is a regular contributor to the public debate on her main research interests: driver behaviour and educational interventions. Her work has been supported by government agencies, research councils and the private sector. A.E. af Wahlberg, Divera Twisk, Willem Vlakveld, Steve W. Kelly, Neale Kinnear, James Thomson, Steve Stradling, Erik Roelofs, Marieke van Onna, Jan Visser, Hilde Kjelsrud, M. Anthony Machin, Janna E. Plint, Fearghal O'Brien, Simon Dunne, Michael Gormley, S.M. Skippon, N. Reed, T. Luke, R. Robbins, M. Chattington, A.H. Harrison, Isah Noradrenalina, M. Maslina, L.S. Kee, ,Norlen Mohamed, Muhammad Fadhli Mohd Yussoff, Julia Bardodej, Franz Nechtelberger, Martin Nechtelberger, ,Maria Eugenia Gras, Silvia Font-Mayolas, Mark J.M. Sullman, Monica Cunill, Montserrat Planes, Patricia Antonio, Manuel Matos, Cris Burgess, Paul Broughton, Fiona Fylan, Sandy Allan, Linda Walker, Oluwadiya Kehinde Sunday, Ladoke Akintola, Bevan Rowland, Jeremy Davey, James Freeman, Darren Wishart, Tamara Banks, Herbert Biggs, Mark King, Stephanie Cynk, Andrew M. Parkes, Wendy Lord, Joerg Prieler, Mark J.M. Sullman, M. Claudia Guattari, Maria Rosaria De Blasiis, Alessandro Calvi, Andrea Benedetto, Carmen Kettwich, St
Review :
This remarkable, genuinely inter-disciplinary collection examines the spaces, places and landscapes of death and bereavement in western societies. Elegantly written and impeccably researched, these essays underline how western attitudes to death are geographically constituted. Deathscapes provides an unflinching, unsentimental and often moving commentary on the last great taboo of the modern age.' Mike Heffernan, University of Nottingham, UK'Deathscapes is more than the sum of its interdisciplinary parts. It describes living with death, locating burial spaces and negotiating sites of mourning while linking historical and contemporary funerary trends across wide geographical tracts. This imaginative collection builds a powerfully integrated picture of human mortality. Experts and the curious will not be disappointed.'Douglas J. Davies, Durham University, UK'This multidisciplinary collection presents important new insights into the spaces and places of death and dying. Bringing together theoretically and empirically rich approaches to subjects as varied as near death experiences, green burial and memorial art, the editors provide an indispensable guide to the inevitable.'Joyce Davidson, Queen's University, Canada'Students and scholars will find this book a useful and thought-provoking addition for the spatial study of death and dying... [The contributors are] fully interdisciplinary, including scholars from sociology, public health, anthropology, history of art and architecture.'Area
