Transactions on Transport Sciences

The new issue of Transactions on Transport Sciences brings together five articles that address selected aspects of human behaviour in relation to transport, i.e. pedestrian behaviour influenced by smartphone use, analysis of aberrant driver behaviour, preferences for public transport in terms of set fares and other motivational factors, and the effectiveness of campaigns against drinking and driving.

The paper by Beata Suriaková and Matúš Šucha from Palacký University in Olomouc deals with the impact of smartphone use by pedestrians on road safety in the Czech Republic. The authors investigate what proportion of pedestrians use mobile phones while walking and how this affects their behaviour in traffic.

The article by Lokesh Gupta, Shubham Goswami, and Rakesh Kumar of Sir Padampat Singhania University and S.V. National Institute of Technology Surat discusses the applicability of the Driver Behaviour Questionnaire (DBQ) in India. The objective of their study is to analyse aberrant driver behaviour towards road safety measures using the DBQ and to investigate the relationship of demographic variables with aberrant driver behaviour and traffic violations. Overall, the results showed that the cross-cultural form of the DBQ is a valid and reliable tool for assessing driver behaviour in India. The results provide valuable information on the influence of demographic factors on driver behaviour to help implement preventive measures in road design and traffic management in India.

The paper by Lulusi Lulusi, Sugiarto Sugiarto, Renni Anggraini, Fadlullah Apriandy, Arif Fadhurrozi, Muhammad Rusdi, and Defry Basrin of Universitas Syiah Kuala and Universitas Samudra deals with setting an appropriate fare for public bus services. In early 2018, a bus transport reform policy was adopted and implemented in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, with the aim of encouraging bus use and specifically reducing dependence on private transport. This system is currently being operated on a trial basis and without a service charge through a subsidy. Once the free operation is over, charging is envisaged. The setting of an appropriate tariff is a sensitive matter, particularly in view of the financial capacity of the population groups that use public transport. The study is concerned with determining the ability to pay (ATP) of bus users using the travel cost budget (TCB), which is defined as the maximum amount a household allocates to transport during a month as a constraint.

While the previous article deals with setting an appropriate public bus fare as a motivating factor for choosing public transport, the article by Umair Hasan, Andrew Whyte, and Hamad Al Jassmi from Curtin University and the United Arab Emirates University, for a similar reason, deals with the analysis of the factors that influence satisfaction with public bus services and understanding their value for urban passengers towards better use of public transport.

The paper by Andrew Hyacinth Ngene and Luke Ifeanyi Anorue of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University and the University of Nigeria uses the Nigerian example of the Dont Drink and Drive campaign to examine the effectiveness of campaigns aimed at discouraging drink driving and thereby improving road safety. The topic of the article is highly debated in many countries where similar campaigns are implemented.

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