Objective and subjective risk in drivers' response to road conditions

the implications of the theory of risk homeostasis for accident aetiology and prevention. Presented at the Seminar on the Implications of Risk Taking Theories for Traffic Safety, West Berlin, November 5-6, 1981.
Author(s)
Wilde, G.J.S.
Year
Abstract

The theory of risk homeostasis was developed in an effort to integrate the many heterogeneous factors that are known to increase traffic accident likelihood into one single conceptual framework. The theory posits that the frequency of accidents may be viewed as the outcome of a homeostatically regulated control process in which the target value of risk in the road user population operate as the factor that determines the time-averaged accident

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B 22211 /83.2/
Source

Kingston, Queen's University, 1981, 41 p., fig., graph., tab., ref.

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