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Effect of attitudes towards traffic safety and risk perceptions on pedestrian behaviours in Vietnam

Effect of attitudes towards traffic safety and risk perceptions on pedestrian behaviours in Vietnam
Effect of attitudes towards traffic safety and risk perceptions on pedestrian behaviours in Vietnam

This study explores the relationships between attitudes towards traffic safety, risk perceptions and pedestrian behaviours in Vietnam. A questionnaire survey was conducted with a sample of 835 Vietnamese road users. The results from regression analyses and a structural equation model showed that safer attitudes towards traffic safety and higher levels of traffic risk perception are associated with safer pedestrian behaviours. In addition, traffic safety attitudes were found to partially mediate the association between traffic risk perception and pedestrian behaviour. Furthermore, traffic risk perception was significantly predicted by non-traffic risk perception, and people who had higher level of risk perceptions of both kinds were also prone to report safer attitudes towards traffic safety. The practical implications for traffic safety interventions in Vietnam are also discussed.

Pedestrian behaviour, Risk perception, Traffic safety attitudes
238-247
Dinh, Do Duy
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Vu, N.H.
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McIlroy, Rich C.
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Plant, Katherine
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Stanton, Neville
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Dinh, Do Duy
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Vu, N.H.
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McIlroy, Rich C.
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Plant, Katherine
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Stanton, Neville
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Dinh, Do Duy, Vu, N.H., McIlroy, Rich C., Plant, Katherine and Stanton, Neville (2020) Effect of attitudes towards traffic safety and risk perceptions on pedestrian behaviours in Vietnam. Sociotechnical Approach to Road Safety, 44 (3), 238-247. (doi:10.1016/j.iatssr.2020.01.002).

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This study explores the relationships between attitudes towards traffic safety, risk perceptions and pedestrian behaviours in Vietnam. A questionnaire survey was conducted with a sample of 835 Vietnamese road users. The results from regression analyses and a structural equation model showed that safer attitudes towards traffic safety and higher levels of traffic risk perception are associated with safer pedestrian behaviours. In addition, traffic safety attitudes were found to partially mediate the association between traffic risk perception and pedestrian behaviour. Furthermore, traffic risk perception was significantly predicted by non-traffic risk perception, and people who had higher level of risk perceptions of both kinds were also prone to report safer attitudes towards traffic safety. The practical implications for traffic safety interventions in Vietnam are also discussed.

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Accepted/In Press date: 22 January 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 30 January 2020
Published date: October 2020
Keywords: Pedestrian behaviour, Risk perception, Traffic safety attitudes

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Local EPrints ID: 443863
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/443863
PURE UUID: f37ea951-c37e-4c39-a212-f0dceb0397f1
ORCID for Rich C. McIlroy: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0326-8101
ORCID for Katherine Plant: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4532-2818
ORCID for Neville Stanton: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8562-3279

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Date deposited: 15 Sep 2020 16:32
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 03:47

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Author: Do Duy Dinh
Author: N.H. Vu
Author: Rich C. McIlroy ORCID iD
Author: Katherine Plant ORCID iD
Author: Neville Stanton ORCID iD

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