traffic psychologist

However, as a traffic psychologist and engineer, Peglau designed numerous other traffic safety plans throughout his career.

East German traffic psychologist Karl Peglau designed the now-iconic figure in 1961.

After attendance at a constructive seminar or a traffic psychologist's counselling, the suspension period begins on the day the certificate of attendance is issued.

Ian Walker, a traffic psychologist, found that motorists drove three inches closer to somebody wearing protective headgear than to their bare-headed counterparts.

Karl Peglau, 82, German traffic psychologist, creator of the Ampelmännchen traffic lights.

That crowding, according to traffic psychologists - a profession that thrives on the national fascination with driving - is contributing to a rising aggressiveness.

Experiments carried out by environment and traffic psychologist Ayça Berfu Ünal suggest that it makes very little difference.

Traffic psychologists distinguish three motivations of driver behavior: reasoned or planned behavior, impulsive or emotional behavior, and habitual behavior.

In general, traffic psychologists attempt to apply these principles and research findings, in order to provide solutions to problems such as traffic mobility and congestion, road accidents, speeding.

Traffic psychologist Ian Walker at the University of Bath in England once conducted a similar experiment that vividly illustrates the problem with well-intentioned interventions that backfire.

For drivers heading across town or across country, this can lead to a familiar phenomenon, according to Dwight Hennessy, a traffic psychologist and associate professor at Buffalo State College in New York.

Dr Ian Walker, a traffic psychologist from the University of Bath, cycled around the cities of Salisbury and Bristol, his bicycle fitted with an ultrasonic sensor to record data from overtaking motorists.

I have become an ambassador for Drive iQ, one example of a free online programme specially developed by traffic psychologists which allows students to experience simulated versions of driving in difficult conditions, so that they can make their mistakes in the safety of a classroom instead of wrapped around a tree.

Traffic psychologist Dr Charles Johnson, technical director of CAS, said previous major cultural shifts in the 1970s and 80s such as the reduction in drink driving and the change in the seat belt laws had been the result of a general public acceptance of the risks posed and hard hitting public information programmes.