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http://dx.doi.org/10.12652/Ksce.2014.34.5.1571

A Study on Clarifying Relationship between the Traffic Culture Index and Traffic Accidents Using Structural Equation Model  

Park, Woongwon (Korea Transportation Safety Authority)
Joo, Sungkab (University of Seoul)
Lim, Joonbeom (University of Seoul)
Lee, Soobeom (University of Seoul)
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KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research / v.34, no.5, 2014 , pp. 1571-1579 More about this Journal
Abstract
93% of road traffic accidents result from drivers' fault and Korea has the largest number of deaths from traffic accidents among the OECD members. For this reason, the country is measuring Traffic Culture Index (TCI) in each city, gun and gu annually to improve traffic safety policies and promote safety consciousness, but the influencing relation between TCI and actual traffic accidents is only based on the assumptions and no verification has been carried out, yet. Therefore, this study aims to verify if in reality, TCI represents the traffic culture level and has an influencing relation with traffic accidents and to suggest an improvement plan of research on the present state of TCI, based on the result. For this purpose, bases on data of the report about the present state of TCI from 2010 to 2012, and the influencing relation between the number of traffic accidents and the number of deaths from traffic accidents was analyzed through structural equation model. For influencing relation analysis through structural equation, research 1 to analyze the relation among TCI in each city, gun and gu, the number of traffic accidents and the number of deaths, and research 2 to analyze the influencing relation of the increase in TCI, the number of traffic accidents and the number of deaths were carried out. When verifying the influencing relation with traffic accidents through structural equation, the goodness of fit of the model was low in research 1 and as TCI increased, the number of accidents and deaths decreased in research 2 and thus the effect of TCI was verified.
Keywords
Traffic culture index; Structural equation model; Traffic accidents; Driver behavior; Pedestrian behavior;
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