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[55] Relationship between Driver’s Behavioral Standards and the Awareness of Traffic Safety

Haruka Uno¹, ○Mitsuko Tomoda¹, Seiji Hashimoto¹ (1. Okayama University Graduate School)

Keywords:behavioral standards, pedestrian/bicycle priority, driving consiousness, residential streets

Recently, the number of road fatalities on residential streets in our country has not been steadily declining, and many fatal accidents have occurred on a road within 500m of homes. Despite Japan has been actively introducing the safety measures on residential streets, the standard of maintenance is still low. Therefore, ensuring safety on residential streets remains as a significant issue.This study focused on driver’s behavioral standards in public situations and analyzed the relationship with the awareness of traffic safety during driving. Firstly, individuals were classified based on behavioral standards. Then, the characteristics of individual’s groups were clarified by analyzing the relation with the personal attributes, the experiences while driving, the awareness of the residential streets and the driving consciousness. Furthermore, for concerning the safety on the residential streets, the causal structural model was assumed by covariance structure analysis, which shows the connection towards the consciousness of driving with priority to pedestrians and bicycles.