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Traffic psychology is a discipline of psychology that studies the relationship between psychological processes and the behavior of road users. In general, traffic psychology aims to apply theoretical aspects of psychology in order to improve traffic mobility by helping to develop and apply crash countermeasures, as well as by guiding desired behaviors through education and the motivation of ...
Shared space is an approach to the design of roads, where risk compensation is consciously used to increase the level of uncertainty for drivers and other road users by removing traditional demarcations between vehicle traffic by removing curbs, road surface markings, and traffic signs. The approach has been found to result in lower vehicle ...
On a population-adjusted basis, Spain had 86% fewer car crash fatalities in 2021 compared to 1991. [5] There are large disparities in road traffic death rates between regions. The risk of dying as a result of a road traffic injury is highest in the African Region (26.6 per 100 000 population), and lowest in the European Region (9.3 per 100 000 ...
Traffic fatalities increased nationwide during the pandemic, from 36,000 deaths in 2019, up to nearly 43,000 in 2021, a 19% increase in deaths. Rural counties added 1,000 more traffic deaths ...
Traffic fatalities tend to rise in the summer. Already the season has been deadly — and the upcoming July 4 weekend is widely considered the single most dangerous time to be on the road.
Highway fatalities are on the rise again — 46,000 in the U.S. in 2022, up 22%, according to numbers released last week. ... chief executive of the Traffic Injury Research Foundation, a member of ...
Highway hypnosis is considered a serious risk factor for traffic accidents. [4] Although a driver in a state of highway hypnosis can drive a car, they cannot react quickly and adequately to unexpected road situations. [10] In this state, there is a tendency for the driver to gradually increase speed (a phenomenon known as psychological inertia ...
In 2020, fatalities increased to nearly 38,680 in the US due to fewer people driving on the road. [9] The same year, fatalities decreased to 18,800 in the EU, due to fewer people driving on the road. [40] That year there was 115% more fatalities in the US than in the EU, or 53% less in the EU than in the US.