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David Shinar is affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Their research primarily addresses topics related to traffic and road safety, with a focus on human-automation interaction, safety warnings and signage, injury epidemiology and prevention, urban transport and accessibility, occupational health and safety research, and health systems including economic evaluations and quality of life.

Their recent publication record includes work published in various academic venues. Notable papers include:

  • "Ergonomic Design Improves Cross-Cultural Road Sign Comprehension" (2021) in Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour
  • "Abiding by the law when it does not exist: The case of the helmet bicycle law" (2020) in Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour
  • "Crash causation, countermeasures, and policy - Editorial" (2024) in Accident Analysis & Prevention
  • "Sustainable Public Safety and the Case of Two Epidemics: COVID-19 and Traffic Crashes. Can We Extrapolate from One to the Other?" (2021) in Sustainability
  • "Editorial: Driver Behavior and Performance in an Age of Increasingly Instrumented Vehicles" (2021) in Frontiers in Psychology

Their frequent co-authors include Tamar Ben-Bassat, J.K. Caird, R E Dewar, Esko Lehtonen, and M. Sinclair.

David Shinar's publications are often found in the following venues:

  • Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour
  • Accident Analysis & Prevention
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Sustainability
  • European Journal of Public Health

Their main field of study is engineering, with several works in the subfields of safety, risk, reliability and quality, social psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, transportation, and radiological and ultrasound technology.

Best Publications

  • Traffic Safety and Human Behavior

    David Shinar

  • Aggressive driving: the contribution of the drivers and the situation

    David Shinar

  • Age, skill, and hazard perception in driving.

    Avinoam Borowsky;David Shinar;Tal Oron-Gilad

  • Aggressive driving: an observational study of driver, vehicle, and situational variables

    David Shinar;Richard P. Compton

  • Psychology on the Road: The Human Factor in Traffic Safety

    David Shinar

  • Self-reports of safe driving behaviors in relationship to sex, age, education and income in the US adult driving population.

    David Shinar;Edna Schechtman;Richard P. Compton

  • Visual requirements for safety and mobility of older drivers.

    David Shinar;Frank Schieber

  • Effects of practice, age, and task demands, on interference from a phone task while driving.

    David Shinar;Noam Tractinsky;Richard P. Compton

  • Screening for depression in stroke patients: the reliability and validity of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale.

    David Shinar;Cynthia R. Gross;Thomas R. Price;Maryan N Banko

  • Reliability of the Activities of Daily Living Scale and Its Use in Telephone Interview

    D Shinar;C R Gross;K S Bronstein;E E Licata-Gehr

  • Tri-level study of the causes of traffic accidents: final report. Executive summary.

    John R. Treat;N. S. Tumbas;Stephen T. McDonald;David Shinar

  • Minimum and comfortable driving headways: reality versus perception.

    Meirav Taieb-Maimon;David Shinar

  • Automated driving: Safety blind spots

    Ian Y. Noy;David Shinar;William J. Horrey

  • Eye Movements of Younger and Older Drivers

    Masha Maltz;David Shinar

  • Effects of an in-vehicle collision avoidance warning system on short- and long-term driving performance

    Avner Ben-Yaacov;Masha Maltz;David Shinar

  • Eye Movements in Curve Negotiation

    David Shinar;Edward D. Mcdowell;Thomas H. Rockwell

  • Alertness maintaining tasks (AMTs) while driving

    Tal Oron-Gilad;Adi Ronen;David Shinar

  • Traffic sign symbol comprehension: a cross-cultural study.

    David Shinar;Robert E Dewar;Heikki Summala;Lidia Zakowska

  • EFFECTS OF UNCERTAINTY, TRANSMISSION TYPE, DRIVER AGE AND GENDER ON BRAKE REACTION AND MOVEMENT TIME

    Lora Warshawsky-Livne;David Shinar

  • Effect of shoulder width, guardrail and roadway geometry on driver perception and behavior.

    Tamar Ben-Bassat;David Shinar

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas R. Price
Thomas R. Price University of Maryland, Baltimore
David Crundall
David Crundall Nottingham Trent University
Louis R. Caplan
Louis R. Caplan Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Jay P. Mohr
Jay P. Mohr Columbia University
Philip A. Wolf
Philip A. Wolf Boston University
Carlos S. Kase
Carlos S. Kase Boston University
Yusak O. Susilo
Yusak O. Susilo BOKU University
Nachshon Meiran
Nachshon Meiran Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Heikki Summala
Heikki Summala University of Helsinki
Timo Lajunen
Timo Lajunen Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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