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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"teenage driving"”.
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Examining the Effect of Driving Experience on Teenage Driving Ability with Secondary Tasks
… examined the relationship between experience and driving performance with secondary tasks. Data were collected from 42 teenage drivers and their parents using an instrumented vehicle for two one hour test track sessions spaced 12 months apart. For part of the sessions, participants followed a lead …
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Recurrent-Event Models for Change-Points Detection
The driving risk of novice teenagers is the highest during the initial period after licensure but decreases rapidly. This dissertation develops recurrent-event change-point models to detect the time when driving risk decreases significantly for novice teenager drivers. The dissertation consists of …
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The Relationship of Early Class Start Times on Sleepiness and Driving Behaviors in an Emerging Adult Population
<p>Teenage driver sleepiness is a recent concern for preventing motor vehicle fatalities. Early school start times limit the amount of sleep teenage high school students acquire during the week and have been related to increased crash risk. The current study extends this finding to teenage and …
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Essays in health economics
… In the third essay, we evaluate the effect of teenage driving laws on mortality using the minimum driving age in a regression discontinuity design. We estimate that gaining driving eligibility leads to an immediate increase in teenage mortality of 15 percent (8 per 100,000). Many states have …
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Trend Analysis of Automobile Collision Amongst 15-19 year olds in Virginia, 2000-2004
Purpose. This research study on automobile collision in Virginia amongst fifteen to nineteen (15-19) year olds looked into the trend analysis over a five (5) year period of 2000 to 2004. Trend analysis is usually done for aggregates of all injuries—either intentional or unintentional injuries, or …