Transactions on Transport Sciences, 2023 (vol. 14), issue 2
Editorial
Ralf Risser
Transactions on Transport Sciences 2023, 14(2) 
This volume of TOTS deals with three areas. Two of them, traffic and transport safety, and mobility preconditions for people with special needs, are of continuous interest. The third one, the effects of COVID on transport and mobility, came up as a short-term issue only a couple of years ago. It will lose interest, unless another pandemic will haunt us in the near future; then what we have learned this time will hopefully be useful. Concerning traffic safety, Bicaksiz et al. analyse the relationship between positive personality traits - the Light Triad framework represented by humanism, faith in humanity, and Kantianism - and a safe driving style....
Associations of the Light Triad with Driving Style and Driving Anger Expression
Pinar Biçaksiz, Burcu Tekeş
Transactions on Transport Sciences 2023, 14(2):5-10 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2023.004
Previous research on personality in the driving context mostly focused on the negative and maladaptive personality traits. The present study investigated the links between the Light Triad traits with driving style and driving anger expression. The Light Triad framework emphasizes the positive side of the personality and it consists of humanism, faith in humanity, and Kantianism. A total of 376 active drivers (50.3 % women) aged between 18 and 70 completed the online questionnaire including the Light Triad Scale (Kaufman et al., 2019), Driver Behavior Questionnaire (DBQ; Reason et al., 1990), and Driving Anger Expression Inventory (DAX, Deffenbacher...
Improving Safety of Passenger Road Transportation
Serhii Cheberiachko, Olena Yavorska, Oleg Deryugin, Dmytro Lantukh, Ivan Bas, Oleg Kruzhilko, Vladyslav Melnyk
Transactions on Transport Sciences 2023, 14(2):11-20 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2023.003
The objective is to increase the passenger road transportation safety by developing an improved model of the transport process with minimal risks of incidents. The Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) was used to determine the factors influencing the reliability of transportation, which is based on the study of the functions of the process of passenger road transportation based on six different aspects: time, control, output, resource, prerequisites, and input. It was clarified that the main reason for violation of traffic rules by drivers of passenger buses is the psycho-physiological state of the driver, which depends on the experience, duration...
How Children with Mild Intellectual Disability Experience Self-driving Buses: In Support of Agency
Mattias Forsblad, Philip Lindblad, Mattias Arvola, Ignacio Solís-Marcos, Henrik Danielsson, Mikael Wiberg
Transactions on Transport Sciences 2023, 14(2):21-31 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2023.002
Emerging technology for public transportation is often not fully aligned with an inclusive design strategy. Many people with intellectual disability experience their needs and desires not being fully considered. Responding to this problem, the purpose of this study is to investigate how children with mild intellectual disability experience self-driving buses. On each bus, a person called "safety driver" monitors the ride and takes control if a problematic situation arises. The purpose is also to investigate what roles support persons and safety drivers play. In addition, the research aims to propose improvements in how the design of these self-driving...
Usability of Road Infrastructure for Persons with Mobility Impairment
Christy C. Nwachi, Chukwuemeka G. Ogbonna, Musa A. Wushishi
Transactions on Transport Sciences 2023, 14(2):32-47 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2023.006
Globally, there have been sustained efforts at addressing inclusion by providing access to safe, accessible, reliable, and affordable transport systems for all, including persons with mobility impairment. Individuals or groups such as children, the elderly, and people with disabilities, whose capacities to travel are restricted by some permanent or temporary frailties have been generally referred to as Persons With Mobility Impairment (PWMI). While many city dwellers take mobility for granted, it is not the case for PWMI as their travel experiences are marked by exclusion and frustrations due to inherent barriers in transport infrastructure and services....
Ageing and Driving Performance in the UK Using Normal Mixture Model Cluster Analysis Technique
Muhammad Tariq Khan, Rawid Khan, Arsalaan Khan
Transactions on Transport Sciences 2023, 14(2):48-53 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2023.007
This research addresses the issue of an individual's ability to drive and especially of those individuals that are questionably demented (dementia is suspected) or are in a state of very mild dementia and are therefore the most difficult to identify. A methodology has been developed for categorization of drivers by considering three driving performance indices/parameters simultaneously. This novel approach precluded the previous technique whereby only a single driving performance index (an omnibus approach without the ability to discriminate between normal driving behavior and risky driving habits primarily due to cognitive decline) is considered....
Returning to Public Transportation in Transitioning Out of COVID-19: Effects of Passenger Satisfaction on Frequency of Use of Rail Transport
Isrrah Malabanan, Dussadee Satirasetthavee, Songyot Kitthamkasorn, Jiranan Panpaksorn
Transactions on Transport Sciences 2023, 14(2):54-67 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2023.005
As travel restrictions ease amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a revival of traffic congestion is observed caused by the increased use of private vehicles. To help alleviate this, return to public transport use is encouraged. Given the positive relationship between passenger satisfaction and their recurrent use of public transit, it is then recommended to improve the service quality offered by these systems. This paper illustrates the use of a combination of principal component analysis and ordinal logistic regression in determining how satisfaction with rail transport service quality affects passengers' usage frequency with Bangkok's mass rapid transit system...
COVID-19 Safety Protocols: Do Commuters Prefer Public Transport after Relaxation of Safety Protocol Enforcement?
Charles Atombo, Maxwell Selase Akple, Richard Fiifi Turkson
Transactions on Transport Sciences 2023, 14(2):68-80 | DOI: 10.5507/tots.2023.008
There is a current discourse on how COVID-19 will impact future use of public services by people. At the time of writing this paper, most countries around the globe had relaxed safety protocol enforcement. This may change individual use of public transport, and policy implementations. The study mainly used Multinomial Logistic Regression (MLR) to examine the use of public transport ridership after the relaxation of COVID-19 safety protocol enforcement. A survey was used to collect data from 1692 respondents across Ghana partly online and partly face-to-face interviews from April 20th, 2022 to June 5th, 2022. The preliminary findings...