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Title:

Self-Reported Use of Safety Gear by Riders of Powered Two Wheel Vehicles in Victoria, Australia

Accession Number:

01551606

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Since motorcycles and motor scooters tend to be overrepresented in road crashes around the world, it is perhaps not surprising that much of the research and government policy attention on Powered-Two-Wheel (PTW) vehicles is focussed on road safety issues. In this context, safety gear (protective clothing) which could be worn by PTW riders is considered a key to decrease the severity of crashes. In this regard, understanding the patterns of safety gear use could be extremely helpful to develop the authors' knowledge in the context of the safety of PTW riders. This paper addresses the need for better knowledge about using different safety gear on the utilitarian and recreational use of different PTWs. The analysis draws on a special survey of PTW usage which was conducted in conjunction with a major household travel survey in Victoria, Australia. Cross tabulations and hypothesis testing provided insight into important differences across subgroups. Also logistic regression models are used to examine the factors which are correlated with whether a particular type of safety gear was worn by a rider or not. The riders’ gender, their riding distance, and purpose of travel including the engine capacity of the PTW are found to be significant explanatory variables. Logistic regression model revealed that male were less likely to wear different safety gears than females while they were found to be a higher proportion of PTW riders. However riders on higher engine capacity PTWs or those who were supposed to ride a greater distance or had a pillion passenger were more likely to wear different safety gears.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF30 Motorcycles and Mopeds.

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-0393

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Amani Jordehi, Babak
Rose, Geoffrey
Johnson, Marilyn

Pagination:

14p

Publication Date:

2015

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Victoria (Australia)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-0393

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 12:15PM