ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews theories and models of behavioural adaptation in the realm of road safety that were proposed up to around the year 2000. Chapter 4 covers later theories. Empirical studies of adaptation such as those undertaken by Rumar et al. (1976) or Streff and Geller (1988) have not been covered. There have been a number of reviews of the empirical evidence for behavioural adaptation (e.g., OECD, 1990; Grayson, 1996; Brown and Noy, 2004). Rather than recapitulating that literature, this chapter concentrates on the theoretical models of road user behavioural adjustment to implementations, that is, on those theories and models that purported to provide an understanding of why and how road users might adapt their behaviour.
