Driver behaviour and its consequences : the case of Chinese drivers.

Author(s)
Xie, C.-Q. Parker, D. & Stradling, S.
Year
Abstract

This paper reports the results of a questionnaire study using the Driving Behaviour Questionnaire and Driving Skill Inventory to provide information on the applicability of Western survey questionnaires to Chinese drivers. Subjects were both professional and private Chinese drivers. Results were correlated through factor analysis. The categories of aberrant driving behaviours were higher than in previous studies: this might be caused by poor traffic infrastructure and comparatively low driving experience in the subjects. Violation frequency suggested that the subjects were more aggressive than expected. Attention to other road users and to road conditions related to perceptual-motor skill, perhaps as a result of a traffic situation featuring more pedestrians and cyclists than in Western countries. Neither age nor sex was found to be a significant predictor of accident involvement: this might be caused by a different proportion of female to male drivers. These inconsistencies showed that generalisations of research conclusions are unsafe in a different cultural environment. For the covering abstract see ITRD E113725 (C 22328 CD-ROM).

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C 22451 (In: C 22328 CD-ROM) /83 / ITRD E114162
Source

In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology ICTTP 2000, Berne, Switzerland, 4-7 September 2000, Pp-, 17 ref.

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