Traffic Psychology: The Birth of a Science
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v15i0.25376Keywords:
transportation, mobility, safety, traffic, historyAbstract
The General Assembly of the United Nations declared the 2011-2020 decade, the “Decade of Action for Road Safety” with the goal to stabilize and to reduce foreseen worldwide mortality in traffic accidents until 2020. In this task, traffic psychology, with its theories and data, cannot disregard such issue and is called to be a protagonist since human behavior is one of the five pillars of the planned actions for this decade. The present paper brings out the origins of traffic psychology allowing a better understanding of its trajectory until current days. The 1866-1930 period is studied in this paper, and the IV International Conference of Psychotechnics is highlighted as it requested from governments the mandatory adoption of the psychological examination for drivers.
Keywords: transportation; mobility; safety; traffic; history.
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