Bus driver accident record; stability over time, exposure and culpability

dc.contributor.authoraf Wåhlberg, Anders E.
dc.contributor.authorDorn, Lisa
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-22T09:45:39Z
dc.date.available2020-01-22T09:45:39Z
dc.date.issued2019-05-28
dc.description.abstractThe tendency for drivers to have a stable accident record over time was tested in a population of bus drivers. Analyses included investigations of the effects of responsibility for the crash, exposure and length of time period, on stability. All associations between numbers of accidents for individuals in different short time periods were found to be weak, but longer time periods increased the size of the correlations. Restricting the analyses to include only those crashes for which the drivers were deemed responsible had a slightly negative effect on correlations. However, this was due to lower means (and thus variance) in these calculations. Similarly, controlling for hours worked decreased the correlations somewhat, but this was due to an outlier problem. The results are consistent with previous research and indicate that stability of accident involvement exists and that the effects can be reliably found under certain methodological circumstances. The sizes of coefficients are determined mainly by the restriction of variance, not by any underlying lack of stability. The stable tendency to cause mishaps within the same environment is a strong factor in traffic safety although this is not apparent when variance in the data is low.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationAF Wåhlberg A, Dorn L. (2019) Bus driver accident record; stability over time, exposure and culpability. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, Volume 20, Issue 5, 2019, pp. 590-602en_UK
dc.identifier.issn1463-922X
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/1463922X.2019.1605629
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/14983
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/*
dc.subjectbus driveren_UK
dc.subjectculpabilityen_UK
dc.subjectcrashen_UK
dc.subjecttraffic accidenten_UK
dc.subjectexposureen_UK
dc.titleBus driver accident record; stability over time, exposure and culpabilityen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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