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Legitimising risk taking: articulating dangerous behaviour on the road

Charles Musselwhite Orcid Logo, Erel Avineri, Yusak O. Susilo

Transportation Planning and Technology, Volume: 37, Issue: 1, Pages: 62 - 82

Swansea University Author: Charles Musselwhite Orcid Logo

DOI (Published version): 10.1080/03081060.2013.844905

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Using a deliberative approach 228 members of the public from four locations in the United Kingdom took part in six focus groups that met on three occasions. Applying a model based on two interlocking sets of theories (Ajzen’s Theory of Planned Behaviour and Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems T...

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Published in: Transportation Planning and Technology
Published: 2014
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