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The Driver Behavior Questionnaire (DBQ) is a well-documented instrument for collecting self-reported information of driving behavior. Different versions of the DBQ are used in different research, depending on the objectives of the study. It is important to verify the questionnaire answers in reality through in-car driving tests, because the questionnaire survey only reveals what the respondents considered their own driver behavior to be. In the research reported in this paper, 30 drivers in Changsha were invited to participate in both a DBQ survey and an in-car test. The main findings obtained from in-car tests are: the driver behavior in reality is consistent with the answers in the questionnaire on the whole. The DBQ aggressiveness scores have been verified through the in-car tests. Gender was found to be significantly relevant to driver behavior. Driving behavior is weakly related to driver occupancy and vehicle gear types. The traffic density was negatively associated with the drivers’ acceleration/deceleration and lane changing behavior. Overtaking on the right side and long time driving on the left-most lane were quite common for the observed group of drivers.

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

01550057

15-3884

English

16p

2015

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Behavior; Driver performance; Driving; Driving tests; Questionnaires

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-3884

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 30 2014 1:16PM