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In this paper, the influence of traffic ethics on driving is investigated and modeled from sociological perspective. The model is developed based on the survey results of 215 drivers who received driving tickets in Tehran, Iran. In this paper, the traffic ethics is considered as a criterion of drivers’ obligation to obey traffic rules. To evaluate the drivers’ obligation, some social and cultural variables are applied. The social variables which are used in this research include: social anomies, social obligations and social capital and the cultural variables are: influence of media, social-cultural status of people and cultural patterns. The results show that the variables investigated in this paper, as representatives of the human related factors, are able to predict 42% of driving violation drivers, respectively. According to the results, traffic violation mainly depends on underlying factor, such as gender and level of education, index of social anomies as a social factors such as belief in inefficiency of traffic rules and lack of social justice and cultural factors, such as social-cultural status and patterning from primary groups.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB30 Operator Education and Regulation.

01550057

15-6029

English

12p

2015

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References (24) ; Tables

Behavior; Culture (Social sciences); Drivers; Ethics; Highway safety; Human factors in crashes; Social factors

Tehran (Iran)

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

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-6029

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 30 2014 2:01PM