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http://dx.doi.org/10.12815/kits.2016.15.6.127

The Effectiveness for Consolidating Fitment of Safety Belt Reminder  

Jang, Jeong Ah (Ajou University)
Shim, Sojung (Korea Automobile Testing & Research Institute)
Kim, Young Sun (Korea Transportation Safety Authority)
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The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems / v.15, no.6, 2016 , pp. 127-137 More about this Journal
Abstract
It is widely recognised that the safety-belt is one of the most important and effective vehicle safety features. Nevertheless, actual safety-belt wearing rates are low in Korea, especially rear seats. In Korea, rear seat safety-belt use can be as low as 20%. Consolidating fitment of Safety Belt Reminder(SBR) is one of means to improve belt wearing rates. In this paper, we use the effect of wearing seat belt model as Evans(1991) model. As a key parameter, intial wearing seat belt rates is studied and final wearing seat belt rates is used as scenario related a human compliance variables. In this study, benefit analysis is performed when the effective SBR is made mandatory for all passenger car seat. According to study results, when the fitment of SBR is made mandatory for all passenger car seats in Korea, 119 lives are expected to be saved annually with a 90% observance rate of the SBR. In the same condition, benefit-cost ratio will be 1.84.
Keywords
Safety-belt reminder; Benefit assessment; Cost-benefit analysis; Safety-belt wearing rate; Break-even values;
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