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Title:

Frequency and Patterns of Smartphone Use While Driving: Evidence from Self-Reports

Accession Number:

01550172

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Smartphone usage while driving is a source of increased risk stemming from the engagement in a secondary task. Answers of 757 Israeli respondents (57% males) to a web survey were analyzed to investigate: (1) patterns of usage (how frequently, on what circumstances) of various Smartphone features and apps while driving, (2) drivers’ views about the safety and necessity of usage (whether the user feels "bothered" if usage was disabled), and (3) willingness to use a technology that limits usage. The authors found that a high percentage of respondents use phone calls (73%) and texting (35%, illegal in Israel) while driving. Respondents who mainly use the phone for work purposes are more commonly frequent users. While phone calls were perceived to compromise safety by 34% of users, texting was perceived to compromise safety by 84% of users. Perceived necessity among frequent users was slightly higher for phone calls (76%) than for texting (69%). Using a logistic regression, the authors found that while perceived necessity and perceived safety were significant factors associated with frequent Smartphone calls, only perceived necessity significantly predicted being a frequent texting user. The willingness to use a technology that limits usage was found to be related primarily to perceived necessity, perceived safety, and work-related usage. Frequency of usage did not explain willingness to use such technology, indicating that it should not be an important factor in designing and implementing interventions to limit usage while driving.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AND10 Vehicle User Characteristics.

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-2089

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Musicant, Oren
Lotan, Tsippy
Grimberg, Einat
Shani, Maor
Albert, Gila

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 (17) ; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Israel

Subject Areas:

Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-2089

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 12:45PM