This issue of Current Topics includes over 80 abstracts of reports, conference papers, books and journal articles which focus on road safety publicity campaigns, looking at their content and effectiveness in influencing awareness, knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of drivers and other road users. Many specific campaigns are described, in the UK and abroad, focussing on topics such as seat belt use, speeding, drunken driving, driving while fatigued, and wearing of crash helmets. These items have been selected from the material added to the Transport Research Laboratory's Library Database between 2000 and 2002. Much of the relevant English language published literature from the UK, USA, Australia and Europe is included; some of the non-UK literature is included courtesy of the OECD International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) database. Abstracts for the years 1996-1998 can be found in a previous issue of this title: Current Topics in Transport 107.1 (C 12658 S / IRRD E100395).
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