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Title:

The Impacts of Click It-Or-Ticket Campaign and Saturation Patrol Interventions on Nighttime Seat Belt Usage

Accession Number:

01626292

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Seatbelts when appropriately worn save lives and yet some high risk populations fail to buckle up especially at night. According to the National Center for Statistics and Analysis-NHTSA, vehicle occupant fatality rate at nighttime is about three times higher than daytime rate. Failure to use seat belts at night has been cited as one of the primary reasons for such a high fatality rate. Research studies have shown that enforcement programs such “Click-It-Or-Ticket (CIOT)” and saturation patrols are effective about bringing positive attitudinal changes with regard to seatbelt use. However, studies documenting the lasting impacts of these interventions are limited in literature. Past studies have evaluated the immediate before and after impact of these interventions, leaving the long term effects unknown. This paper seek to investigate the immediate and long term impacts (up to six months) of these interventions on nighttime seatbelt usage for front-seat vehicle occupants using a one-year nighttime seatbelt observation data collected in six counties in East Tennessee (sites where interventions implemented) and Middle Tennessee (as control sites). Seven waves of data collection were conducted at an interval of two to three weeks between February 2015 and January 2016. Descriptive and statistical analyses (Chi-Square and logistic regression) are performed to compare the differences in seatbelt use before and after various enforcement programs. Results of the study show that saturation patrols and COIT campaigns are more effective at increasing seatbelt use in the short term, however, the effectiveness of these interventions decay with time if not regularly sustained.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB45 Standing Committee on Occupant Protection.

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-04622

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Boakye, Kwaku F
Nambisan, Shashi
Shelley, Mack

Pagination:

17p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References (26) ; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Tennessee

Subject Areas:

Highways; Safety and Human Factors

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-04622

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 11:46AM