Bicycle Backlash: Qualitative Examination of Aggressive Driver–Bicyclist Interactions

2017 ◽  
Vol 2662 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel P. Piatkowski ◽  
Wesley Marshall ◽  
Aaron S. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Initial Step ◽  
Sample Population ◽  
Aggressive Driving ◽  
Social Good ◽  
The Road ◽  
Altruistic Punishment ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
Aggressive Driver

This research investigated aggressive driver–bicyclist interactions. Individuals who identified themselves as both a driver and a bicyclist were asked about their behavior when they encountered a bicyclist on the road while they were driving a car. Open-ended survey responses were analyzed from individuals who reported a propensity for driving too closely to a bicyclist who they felt was not staying to the side of the road. The data were drawn from a snowball-sampled, online survey specifically targeted to elicit responses about rare (i.e., deviant or illegal) behaviors. Little research exists on why individuals would choose to intimidate a bicyclist while they were driving. Applicable theories from sociology and behavioral economics (i.e., theories of crime as social control and as altruistic punishment) were drawn on in this study to help understand why individuals might do so. This paper argues that aggressive driving behavior directed at bicyclists in the sample population could be characterized with two general themes: “teaching them a lesson” and “they had it coming.” In both cases, individuals deflected the blame for their aggressive behavior away from themselves. Instead, they cast themselves as serving a social good by teaching bicyclists how they should behave or by punishing bicyclists for behaving in ways with which the drivers disagreed. The study reported here was an initial step in an effort to identify testable hypotheses through qualitative methods to explain such behaviors and eventually to mitigate them. The intent is to inform actionable directions to address dangerous on-street interactions that act as barriers to a safe transportation system that accommodates all users.

ABERRANT DRIVING AMONG YOUNG MALAYSIAN DRIVERS

2016 ◽  
Vol 78 (6-10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rozmi Ismail ◽  
Ng Lei Voon ◽  
Mohamad Hanif Md Saad ◽  
Muhammad Saleem ◽  
Norhayati Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Test System ◽  
Personality Types ◽  
Screening Tests ◽  
Aggressive Driving ◽  
Road Rage ◽  
The Road ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Relationship

This paper discusses the result of a quasi experimental study aimed to investigate the relationship between personality traits and aggressive (aberrant) driving among young Malaysian drivers. 127 students with mean age of 22 (68 males and 59 females) and valid class B2 driving license were recruited for the study. Before exposure to experimental intervention, the participants completed Eysenck's Impulsivity Inventory (aka IVE Questionnaire) which assessed personality traits (impulsiveness, venturesome and empathy), and AVIS Questionnaire, developed by Vienna Test System (VTS) which assessed aggressiveness while driving. In the experiment the participants were shown video scenarios of aggressive driving as a stimulus for aggressive driving evaluation. They were then asked to respond to questions related to provocations and aggressive behaviour from other drivers on to themselves and of other drivers being provoked by the same situation. The results revealed significant relationship between empathy and personality types (p<0.05) where subjects who score low on empathy and high on venturesome-ness tended to be more aggressive. Even though nearly all participants admitted that Malaysian drivers were aggressive on the road, only 15% of the participants agreed that they are aggressive drivers themselves. Based on this study's results, it is suggested that personality screening tests should be implemented by the relevant agencies as a preliminary measure to reduce the road rage phenomena and aggressive driving.

scholarly journals The problem of correlation between the concepts of "violent" and "dangerous driving" in modern national and foreign psychology

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.S. Polikarpova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
The United States ◽  
Aggressive Driving ◽  
The Road ◽  
Dangerous Driving ◽  
The World ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Government ◽  
On The Road

At present people in nearly all the countries of the world confront with the problem of "aggressive driving", which is particularly acute in the cities. The concept of "aggressive driving" exists in many countries of the world. But there are some differences in approaches to the definition of the content of this notion, which results in giving different names for this kind of driving. For example, in most European countries, as well as in some Asian countries people use the terms "careless driving" and "dangerous driving" ("dangerous driving"). In the United States and Australia a broader concept like "aggressive behaviour on the road" is in use. In foreign countries, there are laws and rules of the road, according to which "aggressive" driving is punishable by a fine, and in some cases, even carries criminal penalties. In Russia, the problem of "aggressive driving" nowadays has started to be treated at the legislative level, and on May, 2016 the Government of the Russian Federation enacted a regulation No. 477 “On amending the road traffic regulations of the Russian Federation ", which introduced the concept of "dangerous driving ", and on 08.06.16 the “Law on dangerous driving” was adopted. The term "dangerous driving" is not easy for understand and it raises questions among drivers, who are not completely aware of what exactly is considered to be "dangerous driving" and how to implement this notion in practice. This article provides an overview of current foreign and national researches, concerning the problem of "aggressive" and "dangerous driving", identifies the differences and similarities between the concepts of "aggressive" and "dangerous driving" as they are understood in Russia and abroad, and describes the factors that influence the emergence of aggression in drivers

scholarly journals Pressure gauge accuracy and tire maintenance awareness among vehicle owners in Birnin Kebbi, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-107
Author(s):  
Ademola James Adeyemi ◽  
Olusegun Isa Lasisi ◽  
Abubakar Arzika Zaki ◽  
Sani Isa Besse ◽  
Muhammad Bello Ambursa
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Safety Information ◽  
Pressure Gauge ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Road Accident ◽  
Northwestern Part ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Maintenance Personnel

Aside from human factors, tire blowouts and other tire imperfections are major contributors to the persistently high road accident rate. While tire imperfections are categorized as part of the mechanical factors affecting road accident, the tire maintenance personnel and the vehicle owners' human behavior plays a significant role in ensuring that accidents due to tire imperfections are minimized. Therefore, this study aims to determine the accuracy of the pressure gauges used by tire maintenance personnel, popularly called vulcanizers in Nigeria, and to determine the level of awareness of vehicle owners about the basic information that affects the safe use of tires on the road.  The study consists of two stages. The first stage investigates the accuracy of the pressure gauges used by twenty vulcanizers in four different districts in Birnin Kebbi, the northwestern part of Nigeria. The second stage was an online survey regarding the tire maintenance behavior of 87 participants, who were formally educated from Diploma to Ph.D. level. The study's findings showed that about 25% of the vulcanizers do not use pressure gauges to measure air pressure during tire inflation, and less than 17% of the readings taken were accurate. Yet about 60% of the respondents believe that vulcanizers' pressure gauges are reliable and less than 30% of the respondents know that the expiring date of tires is four years in Nigeria. Therefore, there is an urgent need for proper awareness about tire usage and maintenance among the general population. It would also be appropriate to include such basic road safety information in the school curriculum at all levels.

Gender Differences and Aggressive Driving Behavior: A Factor Analytic Study

2007 ◽  
Vol 51 (18) ◽  
pp. 1283-1286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustapha Mouloua ◽  
J. Christopher Brill ◽  
Edwin Shirkey
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Driving Behavior ◽  
Aggressive Driving ◽  
Highway Traffic ◽  
National Highway Traffic Safety ◽  
The Road ◽  
Factor Analytic ◽  
Components Analysis ◽  
On The Road

Aggressive driving behavior can be manifested in a wide variety of unsafe driving practices such as tailgating, honking, obscene and rude gestures, flashing high beams at slower traffic, and speeding. According the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 2000 report, aggressive driving was a major cause of traffic accidents and injury. The present study was designed to systematically examine 5 previously developed scales related to aggressive driving behavior using a factor analytic approach. A sample of 253 students were administered these five questionnaires and the data were coded and statistically analyzed using a principal components analysis with Varimax rotation on the 81 items of the five combined scales. Nineteen components accounting for 67.4% of the variance were retained. Component scores were computed for the 19 components and then correlated with gender. Three significant ( p < .05) positive r's were found between gender; factors 11 (bright lights action), 12 (delaying action), and 19 (driving drunk). Males in the sample reported performing these actions more than females. There was one negative r between gender and factor 4 (considerate thoughts), suggesting that females reported more pleasant thoughts than males when angered or annoyed on the road.

scholarly journals A Survey to Understand Emotional Situations on the Road and What They Mean for Affective Automotive UIs

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Braun ◽  
Bastian Pfleging ◽  
Florian Alt
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Automated Driving ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Traffic Behavior

In this paper, we present the results of an online survey (N = 170) on emotional situations on the road. In particular, we asked potential early adopters to remember a situation where they felt either an intense positive or negative emotion while driving. Our research is motivated by imminent disruptions in the automotive sector due to automated driving and the accompanying switch to selling driving experiences over horsepower. This creates a need to focus on the driver’s emotion when designing in-car interfaces. As a result of our research, we present a set of propositions for affective car interfaces based on real-life experiences. With our work we aim to support the design of affective car interfaces and give designers a foundation to build upon. We find respondents often connect positive emotions with enjoying their independence, while negative experiences are associated mostly with traffic behavior. Participants who experienced negative situations wished for better information management and a higher degree of automation. Drivers with positive emotions generally wanted to experience the situation more genuinely, for example, by switching to a “back-to-basic” mode. We explore these statements and discuss recommendations for the design of affective interfaces in future cars.

scholarly journals Traversing Community Attitudes and Interaction Experiences with Large Agricultural Vehicles on Rural Roads

Safety ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Jemma C. King ◽  
Richard C. Franklin ◽  
Lauren Miller
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Rural Roads ◽  
Agricultural Vehicles ◽  
The Road ◽  
Driver's License ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Rural Industries

Agriculture is one of Australia’s largest rural industries. Oversized and slow moving industry equipment and vehicles, hereafter referred to as large agricultural vehicles (LAVs), use public roads. Restrictions exist regarding their on-road operation, but whether this is a function of the risk that their on-road use represents is unknown. A convenience sample of community members was used to explore perspectives about LAVs’ presence on roads. An online survey was used to explore LAV interaction experiences, risk perceptions, and how best to promote safe interactions. Ethics approval was obtained. The participants’ (N = 239) exposure to LAVs on roads in the last 12 months was variable, but there were clear seasonal points when encounters could be expected. The participants indicated that LAVs have a right to drive on the road (94.8%), and most interactions were neutral, with four LAV crashes reported. Other vehicle types were perceived as representing a higher risk to rural road safety than LAVs. The use of the driver’s license test to increase knowledge about LAVs’ presence, how to respond, and the use of signs were suggested in order to improve safety. The participants commonly interacted with LAVs, and rarely experienced negative events such as crashes. Continued communication about LAV presence on rural roads is an important consideration in order to help ensure safe interactions.

Negative attitudes to cyclists affect road space given to them: variation in drivers’ perceptions of adequate space when overtaking a cyclist on the road

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamsin Saxton ◽  
Andrew Thorp
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
The Road ◽  
Perceptions Of Risk ◽  
Driving Anger ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Uk

Cycling has individual and collective benefits, and thus various initiatives have attempted to increase cycling uptake. Motivations and intentions around cycling can be influenced by perceptions of risk and safety, which can be derived in part from the overtaking manoeuvres of other road users. Yet we know little about the systematic variables between drivers that might give rise to differences in their overtaking of cyclists. Accordingly, we investigated how people’s personality and attitudinal variables covary with their perceptions of adequate space when overtaking cyclists. We recruited 386 participants (including 349 regular drivers and 114 regular cyclists) from networks within the UK (particularly the north-east of England) who completed an online survey where we assessed their Big Five personality traits, attitudes to cyclists, driving anger, optimism, and their perceptions of the acceptability of overtaking manoeuvres by drivers passing cyclists on roads, depicted in photographs. We found that people evaluated a greater number of overtaking manoeuvres as more acceptable in particular if they had more negative views of cyclists, and also if they did not cycle regularly, and if they reported more driving anger. People often report negative attitudes towards cyclists, but attitudes are subject to change, and future work could investigate whether encouraging drivers to view cyclists more positively could also reduce drivers’ close-pass overtaking manoeuvres.

scholarly journals Road Users' Risky Behavior: Analysis Focusing on Aggressiveness

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alica Kalašová ◽  
Zuzana Krchová
Keyword(s):  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Behavior Analysis ◽  
Risky Behavior ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Driver Behavior ◽  
Aggressive Driving ◽  
Safe Distance ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Users ◽  
Aggressive Driver

With transport and traffic developing permanently, we can meet more and more aggressive drivers on roads. We can see various kinds of aggressiveness and aggressive behavior that can lead to dangerous situations which can threaten one's health or even life. The problem of aggressive driving on the roads is becoming more current. Speeding, inappropriate gestures, and nonobservance of safe distance, are only a fraction of the aggressive behavior of many drivers that need to be solved in the road traffic. At present, the problem of aggressive driver behavior in Slovakia is not resolved yet.

scholarly journals Factors of the “Aggressive Driving” Behaviour amongst Malaysian Drivers

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 3359-3366
Keyword(s):  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Anger Expression ◽  
Driving Behavior ◽  
Motor Vehicle Crash ◽  
Aggressive Driving ◽  
The Road ◽  
Driving Anger ◽  
Multiple Factors ◽  
Driving Behaviour ◽  
On The Road

This study explores factors that lead towards aggressive driving behaviour among Malaysian drivers and to determine the highest factor that contributes to these aggressive driving styles in Malaysia. Driving aggressively increases the chances of drivers becoming involved in a motor vehicle crash, and aggressive driving behavior occurs happens due to multiple factors. The Driving Anger Expression Inventory (DAX) is used to calculate the factors corresponding to their anger while driving. There are four factors that has been identified to define how people expressed their anger while driving by using DAX, they are Verbally Aggressive Expression (α=0.7332), Physically Aggressive Expression (α=0.8548), Using the Vehicle for Aggressive Expression (α=0.7267) and Adaptive/Constructive Expression (α=0.8711). At the end of this research, we found out that the Adaptive/Constructive Expression is the highest factor and most commonly used amongst drivers to adapt to these aggressive situations on the road. Followed by the factor Verbally Aggressive Expression and Using the Vehicle for Aggressive Expression. Then, the least often used factor in Malaysia is Physically Aggressive Expression. Therefore, some mitigation plans should be considered towards reducing accidents in Malaysia which is on a yearly rising trend.

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