Field studies in traffic safety behavior

Date

2016-10-01

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Özkan, Türker
Lajunen, Timo

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Psychology, Applied, Transportation

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/39985

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TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART F-TRAFFIC PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2016.09.030

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T. Özkan and T. Lajunen, “Field studies in traffic safety behavior,” TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART F-TRAFFIC PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR, pp. 423–424, 2016, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/39985.