Assessment of drivers' comprehension of traffic signs based on their traffic, personal and social characteristics

Al-Madani, H. M. N.; AlJanahi, Abdulrahman

doi:10.1016/s1369-8478(02)00006-2

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“…The results may vary for different countries or regions. Findings about driving experience are similar to those of the literature [4]. Whereas results about driving time are in contrary with the researches of the investigators [7].…”

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confidence: 74%

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Impact Assessment of Effective Parameters on Drivers’ Attention Level to Urban Traffic Signs

Kazemi

Rahimi

Roshankhah

2016

J. Inst. Eng. India Ser. A

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Traffic signs are one of the oldest safety and traffic control equipments. Drivers' reaction to installed signs is an important issue that could be studied using statistical models developed for target groups. There are 527 questionnaires have been filled up randomly in 45 days, some by drivers passing two northern cities of Iran and some by e-mail. Therefore, minimum sample size of 384 is fulfilled. In addition, Cronbach Alpha of more than 90 % verifies the questionnaire's validity. Ordinal logistic regression is used for 5-level answer variables. This relatively novel method predicts probability of different cases' considering other effective independent variables. There are 18 parameters of factor, man, vehicle, and environment are assessed and 5 parameters of number of accidents in last 5 years, occupation, driving time, number of accidents per day, and driving speed are eventually found as the most important ones. Age and gender, that are considered as key factors in other safety and accident studies, are not recognized as effective ones in this paper. The results could be useful for safety planning programs.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 74%

“…Western drivers are better in this way and men notice signs better than women. Also, the literatures have reported that, in Persian Gulf countries, comprehension level is 70 % in under-24-yearold drivers, 79 % in 24 * 50 years old, and 72 % in over-50 [4]. There is a significant correlation between age and experience.…”

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confidence: 96%

Impact Assessment of Effective Parameters on Drivers’ Attention Level to Urban Traffic Signs

Kazemi

Rahimi

Roshankhah

2016

J. Inst. Eng. India Ser. A

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“…The experimental results showed that there were significant cultural differences between Koreans and westerners in comprehension of the same water-sport safety signs. Previous cross cultural studies also reported significant cultural differences in sign comprehension (Al-Madani and Al-Jahani, 2002;Shinar et al, 2003;Lee et al, 2014). A study by Lee et al, which administered 19 comprehension tests for Americans, Koreans, and Turkish, demonstrated that people comprehended symbols from their own country significantly better (Lee et al, 2014).…”

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confidence: 83%

Comprehensibility of Newly Introduced Water-sport Prohibitive Signs in Korea by Koreans and Westerners

Kim¹,

Siswandari²,

Xiong³

2015

Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea

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Objective: The goal of this study is to evaluate the comprehensibility of the newly introduced water-sport prohibitive signs by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MKE, later merged into the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy) among Koreans and westerners, and to check whether the comprehensibility is affected by cultural differences. Background:The Ministry of Knowledge Economy had newly introduced fourteen water-sport prohibitive signs at the end of 2011 to alert people to potentially dangerous situations. However, no studies had been found so far to review or assess their comprehensibility. Method:Comprehensibility tests of fourteen water-sport prohibitive signs were conducted with forty Koreans and forty Westerners in two sequential sessions. In session I, participants were asked to guess the meaning of each sign verbally in an open-ended test. In session II, participants were encouraged to provide feedback for each sign after its intended meaning was given.Results: Only two out of fourteen signs satisfied the comprehension rate (67%) recommended by ISO standard for both groups (Koreans and Westerners). Cultural difference between Koreans and westerners significantly affect the comprehension rates of the investigated signs, and Westerners exhibit better overall comprehension than Koreans. Five poorly comprehended signs for both Korean and Western groups were identified. Conclusion:The recently introduced water-sport prohibitive warning signs by MKE still need a lot of improvements in order to be implemented nationally or internationally. There were significant differences in the signs' comprehensibility between Koreans and westerners. Application:The findings may serve as a useful input for researchers and watersport sign designers in creating easy-to-comprehend safety signs.

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“…Another sector requiring intensive improvement is human behavior development, since generally over half of crash fatalities in GCC countries are related to speed, red light crossing and not obeying the rules. It is quite important to mention that while the western drivers comprehend over 74% of the posted signs; GCC drivers understand only 56% of them [13,14]. Trend in the traffic deaths in the GCC and EU countries as a whole.…”

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Fatal crashes in GCC countries: comparative analysis with EU countries for three decades

Al-Madani¹

2013

Safety and Security Engineering V

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Traffic safety data for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, namely Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, UAE and Bahrain, are analysed here and compared with EU countries. The comparison is based on data gathered for over three decades considering death frequencies and rates. The predicted values for the coming decade, based on best regression fits, are also analysed. The gathered data for the various GCC countries are probably presented for the first time in the literature. While the traffic fatalities in the GCC countries increased from 3,531 during 1980 to 9,685 deaths during 2011; those in 15 EU countries dropped from 59,879 deaths to 20,764. It is expected that roadway deaths in both will reach 10,700 by the year 2021. The fatality rates per population for the GCC countries as a whole were shown to be substantially higher than those in EU countries. While the rates for EU countries were shown to be around 13.5 deaths per 100,000 population during the 80s; those in the GCC countries were in the range of 22 to 27. The current rates for the EU countries are around 5.5. Those in the GCC countries are around 23 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. As per regressed models; EU fatality rates will continue dropping towards zero in about 10 years' time; those for GCC countries will stay in the range of 20 deaths per 100,000 population. There are many contributory factors leading to such high rates of traffic deaths in GCC countries. These include lack of measurable long term safety plans, inconsistent handling of traffic safety strategies, poor involvement of NGOs, poor coordination between various stakeholders, poor research involvement in the traffic safety crises and limited post accident rehabilitation centres.

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Assessment of drivers' comprehension of traffic signs based on their traffic, personal and social characteristics

Cited by 99 publications

References 12 publications

Impact Assessment of Effective Parameters on Drivers’ Attention Level to Urban Traffic Signs

Impact Assessment of Effective Parameters on Drivers’ Attention Level to Urban Traffic Signs

Comprehensibility of Newly Introduced Water-sport Prohibitive Signs in Korea by Koreans and Westerners

Fatal crashes in GCC countries: comparative analysis with EU countries for three decades

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