Editorial: Selected issues of human factors in transport

Karel Pospíšil

Transactions on Transport Sciences 2021, 12(1):1  

Smartphones and Pedestrian Behaviour

Beata Suriakova, Matus Sucha

Transactions on Transport Sciences 2021, 12(1):4-11 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2021.004  

The article deals with the behaviour of pedestrians using a smartphone. The work aims to describe the behaviour of pedestrians using a smartphone while walking and to survey the factors that lead pedestrians to this behaviour. The data gathering was performed at a marked pedestrian crossing without signals in Olomouc. The statistics in question were collected via observation and interviews. A total of 2689 pedestrians were observed and 90 people took part in a structured interview. We observed that 15% of pedestrians use their smartphone while walking. We found out that pedestrians who are holding a smartphone in their hand walk safely across a pedestrian...

Analysis of driver behaviours towards road safety measures using DBQ in the Indian context

Lokesh Gupta, Shubham Goswami, Rakesh Kumar

Transactions on Transport Sciences 2021, 12(1):12-18 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2021.001  

The Driver Behaviour Questionnaire (DBQ) is a universally adopted tool for assessing aberrant driver behaviour. Irrespective of the popularity of the self-report method, the applicability of the DBQ in developing countries like India remained unexamined. The present study aims to analyse the aberrant driver behaviour towards road safety measures using DBQ and investigate demographic variables relationship on aberrant driver behaviour and traffic offences. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis supported the original factor structure. Overall, the results showed that the cross-cultural form of the DBQ is a valid and reliable tool for assessing...

Travel Cost Budget and Ability of Urban Bus Users to Pay Considering the Income Classes in Indonesia

Lulusi Lulusia Sugiarto Sugiarto, Renni Anggraini, Fadlullah Apriandy, Arif Fadhurrozi, Muhammad Rusdi, Defry Basrin

Transactions on Transport Sciences 2021, 12(1):19-24 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2021.006  

The Bus Reform policy known as Trans Koetardja was adopted and implemented in Banda Aceh of Indonesia in early 2018 to promote bus ridership and to specifically mitigate the dependency on private means of transportation. This system is presently being run as a trial and free of service charge through the subsidy provided by the government of Aceh with the amount being spent projected to escalate by the year 2020 due to expansion in the number of bus lines. There is, however, the plan to introduce bus fare to ease the burden of subsidies on the government but most of those engaged in the ridership are generally students and people from low-income households....

Public bus transport service satisfaction: Understanding its value to urban passengers towards improved uptake

Umair Hasan, Andrew Whyte, Hamad Al Jassmi

Transactions on Transport Sciences 2021, 12(1):25-37 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2021.002  

To accurately direct investments towards sustainable transit, current transport status and factors driving passengers towards private cars instead of public transport (PT) should be identified first. Past research advocated improvements in PT to shift mode-usage but has yet to model the different causal effects that direct bus users to cars in rapidly developing yet congested areas. On-board questionnaire survey data from intra-city Abu Dhabi bus passengers (n = 1520, variables = 31) over a month were gathered in this study during both weekends and weekdays. The study modelled existing bias of travellers and quality attributes...

Evaluating the FRSC's "Don't Drink and Drive" Media Campaign in South-east, Nigeria: Effects on Motorists' Exposure and Compliance Levels

Andrew Hyacinth Ngene, Luke Ifeanyi Anorue

Transactions on Transport Sciences 2021, 12(1):38-47 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2021.005  

Background Several campaigns on road traffic accidents have been launched by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) of Nigeria in collaboration with the Beer Sectoral Group (BSG). One such campaign is the "Don't Drink and Drive" intervention launched in 2008. This intervention was initiated to discourage drunk-driving and to improve safety on Nigerian roads through awareness creation. While it is a fact that the the combined enforcement and public education roles of the stakeholders has enormous potentials to tackle drunk driving problems, indigenous empirical evaluation on drivers' exposure and compliance to such DDD messages is scanty. This paper therefore...