Risk Homeostasis in an Experimental Context

作者: Gerald J. S. Wilde , Stephen P. Claxton-Oldfield , Peter H. Platenius

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-2173-6_7

关键词: Risk analysis (engineering)Context (language use)EconomicsPer capitaProduct (category theory)Variable (computer science)Unit of timeJurisdictionProcess (engineering)Video game

摘要: The theory of risk homeostasis has been put forward as a tentative explanation for jurisdiction’s traffic accident rate per km, hour road-user exposure, and capita, well their pattern interrelations. According to this theory, the time unit expo-sure is end product homeostatic control process in which level accepted by road user population—in return benefits accruing from manner amount mobility—functions regulating variable. Although real-life data lending support are many varied, there lack controlled experimental verification. latter meets with obstacles two kinds: inherent shortcomings laboratory studies investigation human behavior, complications arising nature itself.

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