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Paper Title:
Passenger Influences
on Young Driver Safety: Implications for Countermeasure Development
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Authors:
E. Mitsopoulos, M. A.
Regan
Abstract:
Little is currently known
about the patterns of communication that exist between drivers and
passengers, and the effect this interplay has on driver behaviour
to influence safety. If the behavioural interactions that take place
between drivers and passengers were better understood, it would
be possible to develop countermeasure strategies for enhancing the
positive role of passengers and minimising the negative role of
passengers on driver behaviour. The Monash University Accident Research
Centre (MUARC) recently completed research for the NRMA-ACT Road
Safety Trust into the potentially constructive roles that passengers
can play to influence driver behaviour, and from this research,
to make recommendations for countermeasures that are designed to
enhance driver and passenger safety in the ACT. The study involved
the administration of a survey via telephone to 872 ACT residents,
and the conduct of three focus groups involving 28 ACT residents.
The findings shed light on the role types that passengers currently
play in influencing, positively and negatively, their safety and
that of their driver, and the extent to which these role types are
played by passengers depending on driver age, passenger age, driver-passenger
relationship, and the sex of the driver relative to the sex of the
passenger - from the perspective of both drivers and passengers.
This paper will provide
a short review of the literature on the interaction between drivers
and passengers, and outline the recommendations for countermeasure
development deriving from the study. The recommended countermeasures
cover the areas of promotion, education, training, licensing, enforcement,
and research.
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