Researches in traffic area point to the significant participation of youngers in traffic accidents. In Brazil traffic accidents are among the main deaths caused by external factors during young years. This work had the objective of investigating the perception of university students between 18 and 25 years old respect with their possibilities of changing the traffic. One hundred fifth subjects participated in a group dynamic, using Metaphor game, aiming to perceive the importance of working in group to achieve an objective. The Metaphor game permitted to recreate situations of everyday life in traffic system that structured the argumentations developed in the sequence. After the group dynamic, an oriented debate about de signification of traffic as a collective phenomenon was performed. The main result of the debate was the evidence that the contribution of each one is fundamental to a qualitative change of the collective interaction that the traffic demands. Immediately after the discussions, the subjects were oriented to register personal compromises that could indicate the individual contribution to the traffic transformation. The answers were evaluated identifying the perceptions of the younger about their possibilities to change the traffic. The answers were evaluated by qualitative and quantitative analysis. The results indicate the possibilities and limits that the younger perceive about their conditions to transform the traffic. These perceptions are important indicators to the design of interventions in the traffic accidents prevention area. Next step is to evaluate the continuity of the change in the time through longitudinal study; the work is currently in this phase. (Author/publisher) This publication may be accessed by Internet users at: http://www.ictct.org/workshop.php?workshop_nr=25
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