Driver Behaviour and Accident Research Methodology

Anders af WÃ¥hlberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has a B.A. in history, and an M.A. as well as a PhD in psychology, from Uppsala University. His main research interests are driver behaviour and accidents. He has also published on the topics of risk perception and fuel-efficient driving. He has worked as a research assistant at the Centre for Risk Research, Stockholm School of Economics, and led various projects at Uppsala University's Department of Psychology.

Contents: Introduction; Traffic accident involvement taxonomies; The validity of self-reported traffic behaviour data; Accident proneness; The determination of fault in collisions; The accident-exposure association; Constructing a driving safety criterion; Alternatives to accidents as dependent variable; Case studies; Afterword; References; Index.