Decision-making process drivers

Use of Information — The prospective motor carrier employer must only use the safety performance histoiy information as part of the decision-making process when deciding whether to hire the driver. 

Generally made up of representatives from several departments as well as select drivers, an accident review committee I offers several advantages to your decision-making process ... 

Van der Molen and Botticher (1988) see the strategic and tactical levels of driver behaviour as being to all purposes mirror images of each other, so that in terms of factors affecting decision-making they can be treated as one. There are two parallel processes affecting judgements and decisions ... 

Central concepts of RHT are taken from economic utility theory and it is a question of whether utility , expected loss/gain and optimal target level on the whole are applicable when it comes to how drivers deal—that is, psychologically speaking— with risks in the road system. Economic utility theory and adherent concepts are not applicable to the elaboration of behavioural adaptation theory because it rules out fundamental topics such as information processing and unconscious versus conscious routes to decision-making. A theory cannot simply omit such topics and not provide comment as if they do not exist. 

One hypothesis that may apply to the above sub-groups is that certain psychological characteristics may hamper information processing and decision-making in ways that increase accident risk or, more specifically, that conflicts in road traffic may trigger drivers to act in ways that hamper, distort or abort the perception of risk that is necessary to process information and make rational decisions. 

Vaa, T. 2011. Drivers information processing, decision-making and the role of emotions Predictions of the risk monitor model. In C. Cacciabue, M. Hjalmdahl, A. Luedtke,... 

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