Traffic safety education for child pedestrians: A randomized controlled trial with active learning approach to develop street-crossing behaviors

Zare, Hamide; Niknami, Shamsaddin; Heidarnia, Alireza; Fallah, M.H.

doi:10.1016/j.trf.2018.10.021

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“…This variable shows that these projects also promote less aggressive driving habits in young people. The results of the present study confirmed the positive effects of an active learning-based educational program [95]. This result highlight that the road user is the first link in the road safety chain.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…Most of these variables are consistent with the literature, except for the MinRe-edu variable (children and young people included in socio-educational projects). Although a large number of road safety education programs exist, very few studies use crashes as an evaluation criterion-most use intermediate variables such as knowledge, attitudes and (self-reported) safe behaviour [95,99]. This study highlights the positive influence of socio-educational projects, connecting the presence of such projects to a reduction in crashes.…”

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confidence: 91%

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Development of Macro-Level Safety Performance Functions in the City of Naples

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This paper presents macro-level safety performance functions and aims to provide empirical tools for planners and engineers to conduct proactive analyses, promote more sustainable development patterns, and reduce road crashes. In the past decade, several studies have been conducted for crash modeling at a macro-level, yet in Italy, macro-level safety performance functions have neither been calibrated nor used, until now. Therefore, for Italy to be able to fully benefit from applying these models, it is necessary to calibrate the models to local conditions. Generalized linear modelling techniques were used to fit the models, and a negative binomial distribution error structure was assumed. The study used a sample of 15,254 crashes which occurred in the period of 2009–2011 in Naples, Italy. Four traffic analysis zones (TAZ) levels were used, as one of the aims of this paper is to check the extent to which these zoning levels help in addressing the issue. The models were developed by the stepwise forward procedure using explanatory Socio-Demographic (S-D), Transportation Demand Management (TDM), and Exposure variables. The most significant variables were: children and young people placed in re-education projects, population, population aged 65 and above, population aged 25 to 44, male population, total vehicle kilometers traveled, average congestion level, average speed, number of trips originating in the TAZ, number of trips ending in the TAZ, number of total trips and, number of bus stops served per hour. An important result of the study is that children and young people placed in re-education projects negatively affects the frequency of crashes, i.e., it has a positive safety effect. This demonstrates the effectiveness of education projects, especially on children from disadvantaged neighbourhoods.

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Development of Macro-Level Safety Performance Functions in the City of Naples

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“…Observed improvement of safe street crossing behaviors [55] Environmental change (Engineering) A pedestrian overpass was constructed Fewer fatalities but more pedestrian injuries and traffic crashes [47].…”

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“…Increase in knowledge and self-reported use of booster seats [34] Education materials No change in traffic violations or accidents; [43,44] Change in knowledge; [43] increase in knowledge; [44] education alone did not increase use of child safety seats; [45] observed improvement of safe street crossing behaviors [55] Lectures, posters and guidebooks Decrease in incidence of injury [87] Peer education…”

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Prevention of childhood unintentional injuries in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review

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Injuries are a leading cause of death and disability among children. Numerous injury prevention strategies have been successful in high-income countries, but the majority of unintentional injuries happen to children living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This project aims to delineate the childhood injury prevention initiatives in LMICs. For inclusion, peer-reviewed articles needed to address unintentional injury, include children <18, assess a prevention-related intervention, contain a control group, and be published after 1988. Two pairs of reviewers evaluated articles independently to determine study eligibility. 74 articles were included. 30 studies addressed road traffic injuries, 11 drowning, 8 burns, 3 falls, 8 poisonings, and 21 an unspecified injury type. The findings show positive effects on injury outcome measures following educational interventions, the need for longer follow-up periods after the intervention, the need for effectiveness trials for behavior change, and the need for an increase in injury prevention services in LMICs. This is the first systematic review to summarize the prevention initiatives for all types of childhood unintentional injuries in LMICs. Increased attention and funding are required to go beyond educational initiatives with self-reported measures and little follow-up time to robust interventions that will reduce the global burden of unintentional injuries among children.

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“…Recognizing that education is constituted as the principal method to reach the preventive effects that traffic campaigns want (Obregón-Biosca, Betanzo-Quezada, Romero-Navarrete, & Ríos-Nuñez, 2018), it would be important to highlight that for a real transformation caused by education aimed at citizens and in this way is imperative to train political directors and officials about the best strategies to gain an effective road safety. This is not only the political leaders are who have the responsibility of design, implement and monitoring preventive and social intervention programs, because in addition development of educational and preventive views are necessary now of construct and transform the social realities with intervention through civic preventive programs (Biglan, 2016;Zare, Niknami, Heidarnia, & Hossein-Fallah, 2019).…”

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Effects of differential training in rule-governed behavior on compliance with traffic rules by pedestrians

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Hernández-Buitrago

Baquero

2020

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The aim of this translational research was to investigate the effect of differential training in three types of rule-governed behavior (RGB) on compliance and transgression with pedestrian traffic rules. Participated 231 university students divided in three groups defined by the type of training (pliance, tracking and augmenting). The design consisted of pre-tests and post-tests, in addition of a training phase with direct reinforcement according to the experimental group. The results showed a general trend by compliance the rule in all phases, particularly with tracking-consequences in pre and post-training. In all experimental groups, training in RGB increase election in compliance of traffic rules. These findings allow the formulation of evidence-based guidelines for the design, implementation and evaluation of prevention road programs.

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Traffic safety education for child pedestrians: A randomized controlled trial with active learning approach to develop street-crossing behaviors

Cited by 36 publications

References 25 publications

Development of Macro-Level Safety Performance Functions in the City of Naples

Development of Macro-Level Safety Performance Functions in the City of Naples

Prevention of childhood unintentional injuries in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review

Effects of differential training in rule-governed behavior on compliance with traffic rules by pedestrians

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