There is clear research evidence that using a mobile phone while driving dangerous. However, although drivers generally know this risky behaviour, many continue to use handheld driving. The present used the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) explore psychological reasons underpinning intentions in general, as well send and read text messages across four different scenarios. Convenience sampling ...

Changes in irrigation water-use efficiency are related closely to agricultural development. Clarifying the driving factors of irrigation water-use efficiency change at different agricultural development stages is beneficial for buffering the contradiction between the protection of water resources and massive agricultural water consumption. It also has theoretical and application value when it c...

there has been an increasing concern about inactive drivers who would easily lead to road accidents and fatalities once return to driving. this study investigated the re-usability of traffic signs for inactive drivers with consideration of driver factors and cognitive sign features. fifty-seven hong kong chinese, who possessed a full driving license but had not driven for an extended period, co...

PURPOSE Research shows that parenting factors and individual difference variables, such as sensation seeking (SS) and risk perceptions (RPs), are associated with increased motor vehicle crash risk for young drivers. The presence of peer passengers is also known to be associated with increased crash risk. However, as previous studies did not study these factors concurrently, less is known about ...

Using dynamic panel estimations, this paper identifies driving forces of venture capital activity for Western European countries. Driving forces might be the liquidity of stock markets, human capital endowment, and labour market rigidities. I find that these factors do not affect expansion stage investments used as a broader definition of venture capital, while they positively affect early stag...

• The effects of various factors on comfort in partially automated cars were examined. Type road, weather conditions and traffic congestion all influenced comfort. Adapting the speed vehicle helped to reduce discomfort some conditions. Data clustering revealed four different behavioral profiles among participants. Anderson’s scenario-based method can be used study cars. Although it is key impro...

Autonomous vehicles are one of the most, if not the most, encountered elements in a driving simulator. Their impact on the realism of the simulator is critical. For autonomous vehicles to contribute positively to the realism of the hosting driving simulator, they need to have realistic appearance and, possibly more importantly, realistic behavior. This paper addresses the problem of modeling re...