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Title:

To Report or Not to Report: Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior to Understand the Intentions to Report Cycling Incidents by Young Adults

Accession Number:

01589921

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

This study explores the behavioral factors underlying the reporting intentions of cycling accidents. The proposed analytical framework is an adapted version of the Theory of Planned Behavior accounting for the linkage between attitudes and the perceived difficulties, in order to understand the barriers impeding cycling accident reporting intentions. The barriers consist of attitudes that accident reporting is useless, preference to allocate time to other activities, concerns about family distress and social image, distrust in the police, and medical consultation aversion. The framework was validated by means of a survey, which yielded 1,512 complete responses from cyclists. The estimated structural equation model revealed: (i) the perceived difficulties are related to reporting intentions, attitudes that accident reporting is useless, and the preference to allocate time to other activities; (ii) medical consultation aversion has a higher weight than distrust in the police in demotivating cycling accident reporting intentions; (iii) the latent factors are mainly related to socio-economic characteristics and last cycling accident characteristics; (iv) information provision regarding the societal benefits of accident reporting is important for increasing the reporting rate.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF20 Standing Committee on Bicycle Transportation.

Monograph Accession #:

01584066

Report/Paper Numbers:

16-2220

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Kaplan, Sigal
Janstrup, Kira H
Prato, Carlo G

Pagination:

19p

Publication Date:

2016

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2016-1-10 to 2016-1-14
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Web

Features:

Figures; References (50) ; Tables

Subject Areas:

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-2220

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 12 2016 4:58PM