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Title: PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARD TRAFFIC REGULATION, COMPLIANCE, AND ENFORCEMENT IN URBAN AREAS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
Accession Number: 00602713
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: Public attitudes toward traffic regulation, compliance, and enforcement in urban areas of the United Kingdom were examined in a study for the U.K. Department of Transport, through a series of group discussions among road users and a national quantitative survey. Most drivers admitted to breaking at least some types of traffic regulation, and drivers and nondrivers generally agreed on which were the most serious offenses--usually those with a perceived safety or congestion impact. Twelve factors were identified that affected compliance levels in urban areas: physical ease of offending, quality of the traffic signs, existence of exemptions for certain groups, perceived rationale behind the regulation, persons adversely affected by noncompliance, convenience of legal alternatives, enforcement level and penalty, magnitude of the infringement, importance of the trip, compliance by others, personal predisposition, and familiarity with the area. People have a sense of territory in their local area and may ignore traffic regulations that are felt to be there to control through-traffic. Despite the common use of personal judgment about when to comply, virtually everyone accepted the need for traffic regulation and wanted better enforcement of certain offenses, such as dangerous driving and illegal parking; where the latter caused congestion or a safety hazard, there was also strong support for towing away the offending vehicle. Better understanding of which regulations people regard as reasonable and why should make it possible to increase compliance levels without additional enforcement resources.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1270, Safety Research: Accident Studies, Enforcement, EMS, Management, and Simulation 1990. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved
Monograph Title: SAFETY RESEARCH: ACCIDENT STUDIES, ENFORCEMENT, EMS, MANAGEMENT AND SIMULATION 1990 Monograph Accession #: 00620472
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Jones, Peter MPagination: p. 66-72
Publication Date: 1990
Serial: ISBN: 0-309-05052-9
Features: References
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TRT Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I73: Traffic Control
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Dec 31 1990 12:00AM
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