TY - JOUR PY - 2012// TI - Traffic psychology and driver behavior JO - Procedia - social and behavioral sciences A1 - Bucchi, Alberto A1 - Sangiorgi, Cesare A1 - Vignali, Valeria SP - 972 EP - 979 VL - 53 IS - N2 - In this paper the authors analyze the interaction of road-safety and human factors to identify personality, attitude, ability and reliability of a driver. By psychology methods, the construction process of driver personality has been investigated by the study of processes of perception, learning and memory. Since from personality derives the driver performance, is possible to detect behaviours that tend to result in decreasing driving risk. In this way the authors provide useful indications for design of safe roads and he concludes that during the road design and management is very important the presence of a new rule, the psychologist.
LA - en SN - 1877-0428 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.09.946 ID - ref1 ER -