Citation

Janssen WH, Tenkink E. Accid. Anal. Prev. 1988; 20(2): 137-142.

Affiliation

Institute for Perception TNO, Soesterberg, The Netherlands.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3358835

Abstract

Risk-taking behavior by drivers is put within the context of a general model of utility maximization by speed choice. It is shown that so-called "risk homeostasis" is possible only under very restrictive conditions. Under more general conditions, risk compensation can occur; that is, the safety effects expected from engineering measures will be discounted to a considerable degree by shifts in behavior.