The importance of spatial orientation and knowledge of traffic signs for children's traffic safety

Trifunović, Aleksandar; Pešić, Dalibor; Čičević, Svetlana; Antić, Boris

doi:10.1016/j.aap.2017.02.019

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“…Road safety education should be tailored according to the age group and experience of the learners. For pre-drivers, these programs typically focus on classroom instructions with topics such as vehicle operation, road traffic laws, factors which affect driving (e.g., driving under influence and distractions like mobile phone use), and driving practice with an instructor or a combination of both [12,13].…”

Section: The Use Of Road Safety Education As An Instrument For Reducimentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluation of a Road Safety Education Program Based on Driving Under Influence and Traffic Risks for Higher Secondary School Students in Belgium

Riaz

Cuenen

Dhondt³

et al. 2019

Safety

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Road safety education has been recognized as an instrument for reducing road accidents. This study aims to evaluate the road safety education program "Traffic Weeks" among higher secondary school students (age 16-19) in Belgium. The program focuses on driving under influence (DUI) and traffic risks. This study investigates whether the program has an effect on socio-cognitive variables using a questionnaire based on the theory of planned behavior. During the pre-test, 445 students filled in the questionnaire, while 253 students filled in the questionnaire during the post-test. Of these, 175 questionnaires could be matched. The results indicate that the students already had quite a supportive view of road safety at pre-test, with female students showing a more supportive view of road safety than male students. The DUI workshop had a positive effect on most socio-cognitive variables (attitude, subjective norm-friends, and intention) of female students in general education, while the traffic risks workshop only affected perceived behavioral control of female students. In terms of appreciation, students had a significantly higher appreciation of the DUI workshop compared to the traffic risks workshop. During the focus groups, students gave recommendations to improve the program.

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Section: The Use Of Road Safety Education As An Instrument For Reducimentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluation of a Road Safety Education Program Based on Driving Under Influence and Traffic Risks for Higher Secondary School Students in Belgium

Riaz

Cuenen

Dhondt³

et al. 2019

Safety

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“…Another strength of this research was the use of structural models: this process, that made it possible to build up an explanatory model with good fit and coherent/significant paths, in accordance to both the theory and the hypothesized outcomes, has allowed us to conclude that safe behaviors are significantly influenced by three core skills that can be strengthened in the school environment, as it is also described in previous studies [26,54]. In this regard, and in consideration of both the current findings and what is mentioned in other previous studies, this research advocates for the importance of school-based RSE supported by quality budgets, systematicity and orientation towards key behavioral competences or skills-positive effects on behavior of RSE that have been observed when good practices are adopted [10,11]-as a way of enhancing its effectiveness and long-lasting impact on the present and future road behavior of children.…”

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confidence: 89%

Behavioral Health at School: Do Three Competences in Road Safety Education Impact the Protective Road Behaviors of Spanish Children?

Alonso

Gonzalez-Marin²,

Estéban

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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Background: Education in road safety (also known as Road Safety Education-RSE) constitutes, nowadays, an emergent approach for improving present and future road behaviors, aiming at taking action against the current, and concerning, state-of-affairs of traffic crashes, through a behavioral perspective. In the case of children, and despite their overrepresentation in traffic injury figures, RSE-based strategies for behavioral health in transportation remain a "new" approach, whose impact still needs to be empirically tested. Objective: The aim of this study is to assess the impact of three key road safety skills of the Positive Attitudes, Risk perception and Knowledge of norms (PARK) model, addressed in RSE-based interventions, on the safe road behavior of Spanish children. Methods: For this cross-sectional study, a representative sample of 1930 (50.4% males and 49.6% females) Spanish children attending primary school, with a mean age of 10.1 (SD = 1.6) years, was gathered from 70 educational centers across all Spanish regions, through a national study on RSE and road safety. Results: Road safety skills show a positive relationship with children's self-reported safe behaviors on the road. However, the knowledge of traffic norms alone does not predict safe behaviors: it needs to be combined with risk perception and positive attitudes towards road safety. Furthermore, the degree of exposure to previous RSE interventions was shown to have an effect on the score obtained by children in each road safety skill; on the other hand, road misbehaviors observed in parents and peers had a negative impact on them. Conclusion: The outcomes of this study suggest that education in road safety is still a key process for the acquisition of safe habits, patterns and behaviors among young road users.

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“…Port pollution affects the environment and heath conditions of operators [24]. Standard distribution of port safety signs can provide alarms to port staff and reduce probability of safety accidents [25].…”

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Port Safety Assessment based on Entropy Weight Matter-Element model

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2017

JESTR

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Frequently port safety accidents have resulted in port safety problems becoming the focus of increasing attention. Port safety assessment is an important basis in preventing port safety accidents. Owing to complicated influencing factors of port safety, assessing port safety effectively has been a key research topic in the industry and academe. To determine port safety assessment indexes reasonably and acquire practical assessment results, the port safety assessment index system based on 5M (man, machine, material, management, and milieu) was established first. Then, weights of all assessment indexes were determined by the entropy weight method, and the port safety assessment model was constructed by matterelement theory. Finally, the assessment model was verified by ports in Zhejiang Province of China. Results demonstrate that the material factor presents the highest average weight among all evaluation indexes. The accident rate of goods and qualified rate of pollution control are two indexes with the highest weights. The port safety assessment results based on the entropy weight matter-element model conform to practical situations. Thus, the port safety assessment model based on entropy weight matter-element theory can measure port safety level effectively and evaluate its feasibility in practical cases. The model offsets shortcomings of single theory assessment and provides a new idea and decision-making method for port safety assessment.

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The importance of spatial orientation and knowledge of traffic signs for children's traffic safety

Cited by 40 publications

References 29 publications

Evaluation of a Road Safety Education Program Based on Driving Under Influence and Traffic Risks for Higher Secondary School Students in Belgium

Evaluation of a Road Safety Education Program Based on Driving Under Influence and Traffic Risks for Higher Secondary School Students in Belgium

Behavioral Health at School: Do Three Competences in Road Safety Education Impact the Protective Road Behaviors of Spanish Children?

Port Safety Assessment based on Entropy Weight Matter-Element model

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