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Peng-Sheng Chen, 2006.08
Feng Chia University - Graduate Institute of Traffic and Transportation Engineering and Management
As motorcyclists are increasing in Taiwan, and the traffic accidents are increasing simultaneously. In the same time, the violation behaviors will cause major effects on roadway safety. If we consider road users, mechanical failures, and environment as three major factors on traffic accidents, the statistical data shows that traffic accidents have direct correlation with road user’s behaviors. Furthermore, many documents show the high percentage of traffic accidents occurred on road intersections.
Therefore, this study applies the Theory of Planned Behaviors (TPB) to discuss the violation behaviors of motorcyclists on intersections. TPB includes three aspects: attitude, subject norm, and perceived behavior control. We use the TPB to discuss interactions between the psychological aspects and the environment aspects of motorcyclists on intersections. This study uses the questionnaires investigation on the college students and general users who drive motorcycle frequently. The total effective questionnaires are 427 samples, and then we use the Linear Structure Relationship Model (LISREL) to correlate the parameters within this model.
The results of this study shows that perceived behavior control is the most dominate factor in this model, and both attitude and subject norm also have significant influences. In addition, in this model, the intention of violation behavior has major influence on violation behavior. However, all of attitude, subject norm, and perceived control have no significant influence on violation behavior. This study shows that in attitude aspect, “violation will cause dangerous” is the major concern; in subject norm aspect, “parents” will have significant constrain on motorcyclist’s violation behavior; in the perceived behavior control aspect, “no moving vehicle nearby” will make motorcyclists to violate traffic regulations. |
