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Many drivers unconsciously exhibit aggressive driving behaviors. Perceptual bias of aggressive driving behavior is one of the main causes of traffic accidents. In this paper, the authors put forward targeted measures to improve the accuracy of self-assessment. A questionnaire was designed to collect the drivers' socio-economic characteristics, personalities, and information on the external environment. Six hundred and ninety valid samples were obtained from drivers participating in the retraining course. Based on the penalty points of drivers and surveyed data (self-reported) conducted in Nanjing, China, a binary logistic model was built to explore how various factors affect drivers’ perceptual bias of aggressive driving behavior. The findings reveal that three variables significantly affect drivers’ perceptual bias of aggressive driving behavior; namely, vehicle type, personality characteristics, and external environment (work, road, and vehicle). This study can help devise targeted countermeasures to reduce traffic accidents caused by perceptual bias.

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

19-04654

English

6p

2019

Transportation Research Board 98th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

References (13) ; Tables

Attitudes; Behavior; Drivers; Driving; Personality

Aggressive driving

Nanjing (China)

Highways; Safety and Human Factors

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2019 Paper #19-04654

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 7 2018 9:41AM