One year of COVID-19: Impacts on safe driving behavior and policy recommendations

Michelaraki, Eva; Sekadakis, Marios; Katrakazas, Christos; Ζιακόπουλος, Απόστολος; Yannis, George

doi:10.1016/j.jsr.2022.10.007

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“…In Greece and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabi, COVID-19 lockdowns led to decreases in vehicle volumes but 6-11% increases in speed and 12% increase in harsh acceleration and braking events (Katrakazas et al, 2020). Cell phone data from Greece, Saudi Arabia, and Brazil similarly found an increase in average vehicle speed and harsh driving behavior (Michelaraki et al, 2021). We will thusly explore contributing factors and speeds of collisions during the COVID-19 lockdowns.…”

Section: Travel Behavior During Covid-19mentioning

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Impacts of COVID-19 on Motor Vehicle Crash Frequency and Severity by Functional Classification and Land Use Context

Ferenchak¹

2023

ToTS

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Reduced traffic exposure due to COVID-19 lockdowns may have resulted in changes to both the frequency and severity of motor vehicle crashes. In order to better understand the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on traffic safety outcomes in US DOT Region 6, we explored the role of vehicle, user, and built environment factors on fatalities, injuries, and total crashes before and during COVID-19 lockdowns in Oklahoma and Texas. Findings suggest that while crash counts in Region 6 were 45%-50% lower during the COVID-19 lockdowns than the previous five-year averages, crashes were more severe. Fatal pedestrian crash counts decreased 3.9% during COVID-19 and fatal bicyclist crash counts increased 22.0%. These Region 6 outcomes were worse than the US as a whole. COVID-19 crashes were more likely single-vehicle fixed-object or rollover crashes involving unsafe speeds. In Texas, suburban areas saw the most crashes before and during COVID-19. Rural Texas crashes were most likely to result in a serious or fatal injury, and that likelihood got worse during the COVID-19 lockdowns.

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Section: Travel Behavior During Covid-19mentioning

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Impacts of COVID-19 on Motor Vehicle Crash Frequency and Severity by Functional Classification and Land Use Context

Ferenchak¹

2023

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“…Recent studies have indicated that driving behavior has also changed during the pandemic period. For example, a 6-11% increase in driving speed was observed, along with more frequent harsh accelerations and brakings per distance, during the first lockdown period in Greece and Saudi Arabia (Katrakazas et al, 2020(Katrakazas et al, , 2021Michelaraki et al, 2021). However, very few studies used the PMT model to investigate driving and customer handling behaviors in greater depth, particularly in the context of urban transit operators in developing countries.…”

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How the driving behaviors and customer handling of public transportation operators have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: the perspective of protection motivation theory?

Tareke¹

2023

Front. Sustain. Cities

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on every aspect of human life and economic sectors such as transportation operations around the world. This paper tries to investigate how COVID-19 pandemic factors influenced the driving and customer handling behaviors of urban public transportation operators in Addis Ababa city, Ethiopia. To that end, a framework of mixed research, pre/post study design, and protection motivation theory (PMT) was used to guide the development, quantification, and analysis of the causal relationships of pandemic-related constructs on driving and customer handling behaviors. The examined driving behavior variables included harsh speeding, harsh braking, and drink-drive events concerning the time period before and during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. Customer handling was also operationalized in terms of the level of friendly handling and care provided to customers. As a result, primary data were collected through transport surveys on 143 randomly selected public transit operators, including city buses, midsize buses, minibuses, bajajs, and light rail transits. Furthermore, contingency indexes, likert scales, and binary logistic regression models were used to estimate and predict the most significant factors that affected driving and customer handling behavior. Findings showed that the new COVID-19 pandemic and response measure-related factors were the most significant factors impacting driving behavior during the pandemic. Driving frequencies and intentions, as well as driving decisions or choices, were significantly influenced and reduced. Due to the pandemic-related factors, harsh driving behaviors such as harsh speeding and braking became more frequent during the pandemic compared to the pre-COVID period. Additionally, the correlation between harsh driving behavior and other factors, mainly trip distance traveled, driving during risky nighttime hours, and driving requests, was significant. Furthermore, due to the impacts of COVID-19, government measures, and changes in driving behavior, customer handling and care behaviors were predominantly unfriendly. Findings revealed that the performance of PMT was relevant, and it could inform and guide studies to understand such an impact analysis. Thus, policymakers must learn from the harsh lessons of COVID-19 and make bold investments in preparedness, prevention, and response, including pandemic-sensitive strategies and customer-oriented strategies.

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Targeted nudging for speeding behavior: The influence of interpersonal characteristics on responses to in-vehicle road nudges

Zadka-Peer,

Rosenbloom

2024

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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One year of COVID-19: Impacts on safe driving behavior and policy recommendations

Cited by 8 publications

References 39 publications

Impacts of COVID-19 on Motor Vehicle Crash Frequency and Severity by Functional Classification and Land Use Context

Impacts of COVID-19 on Motor Vehicle Crash Frequency and Severity by Functional Classification and Land Use Context

How the driving behaviors and customer handling of public transportation operators have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: the perspective of protection motivation theory?

Targeted nudging for speeding behavior: The influence of interpersonal characteristics on responses to in-vehicle road nudges

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