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Transportation Dissertation

Title The Effects of Legal Consciousness on Aberrant Road Using Behavior for the Elderly
Year 2019
Degree Master
School Department of Transportation and Logistics Management College of Management National Chiao Tung University
Author Jhih-Siang Wang
Summary

       This study was conducted to explore the effects of traffic legal consciousness on the aberrant road using behaviors of elderly people. Through literature review and conceptual framework design, this study tries to develop a set of scales to measure the aberrant road using behaviors and traffic legal consciousness of the elderly and determine how the traffic legal consciousness affects the abberant road using behaviors of elderly people. Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), a designed questionnaire was developed and applied to investigate the abberant road using behaviors and traffic legal consciousness of the lderly drivers who are over 65 years old in Hsinchu City. Through a face-to-face survey, 245 effective samples were finally collected, including 127 males and 118 females.
       The Partial Credit Rasch Model was used to analyze the aberrant road using behavior, traffic legal consciousness as well as the risk perception, attitude, subjective norm and perceptual behavior control on the abberant road using behaviors of the elderly. The study results show that the elderly commit abberant road using behaviors frequently when they walk on the streets as a pedestrian. Besides, the frequency of abberant road using behaviors for the elderly is found to be significantly negatively affected by their traffic legal consciousness. The analyses of variance (ANOVA) further indicate that different gender, age and disposable groups of the elderly have significant differences on their traffic legal consciousness and abberant road using behaviors as well. The study results are valuable reference for improving the traffic safety projects to make the elderly safer on the road.

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