Rating road traffic education

Obregón-Biosca, Saúl Antonio; Betanzo-Quezada, Eduardo; Romero-Navarrete, José A.; Ríos-Nuñez, Miguel

doi:10.1016/j.trf.2018.03.033

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“…Education has been recognized as a key method for reducing road traffic accidents [19][20][21], and is important for all road users as all the participants of the road are equally responsible for traffic safety. It is based on three main pillars [22]: 1) increasing knowledge and understanding of traffic rules and situations, 2) improving skills through training and, 3) increasing and/or reinforcing the positive attitudes toward risk-awareness, safety and safety of other users.…”

Section: Traffic Educationmentioning

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Evaluation of a gamified e-learning platform to improve traffic safety among elementary school pupils in Belgium

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Cuenen

Janssens

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Children are highly represented in statistics relating to road traffic injuries and fatalities. There are multiple risk factors that together create an increased risk for children in traffic, some of the major reasons include children's inability to efficiently and actively scan the environment and look for information relevant to the traffic environment, inconsistent behavior, and less developed hazard perception skills. Traffic safety education is one of the most important means for improving knowledge and skills required for children to behave safely in traffic. This study evaluated a newly developed and gamified e-learning platform meant to promote traffic safety among elementary school pupils in Belgium. Participants in this study were from four grades of elementary school and voluntarily took part in the training. They followed a self-study program at home for approximately 15 minutes per week over a period of five weeks in total. The platform included four modules: traffic knowledge, situation awareness, risk detection, and risk management. For each of these modules, a set of photos and videos were used as stimuli and selected from a database of camera recordings of real-life situations. Half of each module consisted of familiar situations for the pupils (i.e., own municipality), while the other half of each module consisted of unfamiliar situations for the pupils (i.e., other municipalities). A fifth module, 'the final', contained a mix of the first four modules. In total, 44 elementary school pupils (9-13 years old) completed the program. During the first round of measurement (i.e., the first four modules), pupils performed significantly better in the traffic knowledge module when compared to the other three modules. Further, in comparison to unfamiliar situations, pupils scored significantly higher in familiar situations. During the second round of measurement (i.e., the fifth module), pupils achieved higher scores in the risk detection and risk management modules when contrasted to the first measurement. The effect of gamification elements is discussed and the results also indicate the type of traffic safety issues to be emphasized in traffic safety education for children.

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Section: Traffic Educationmentioning

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Evaluation of a gamified e-learning platform to improve traffic safety among elementary school pupils in Belgium

Riaz

Cuenen

Janssens

et al. 2019

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“…Marshall y Ferenchak (2019) mencionan que, a pesar de que la bicicleta como medio de transporte se considera diez veces más peligroso que conducir, hay evidencia de que las ciudades con mayores índices de uso son seguras para todos los usuarios. En torno a la educación vial, autores como Shell et al (2015) y Useche et al (2018) destacan la repercusión que tiene concientizar al respecto y la de crear acciones que generen actitudes positivas para prevenir los comportamientos inseguros e incorrectos de los usuarios de la calle, entre las cuales se pueden tomar en cuenta las que Obregón-Biosca et al (2018) proponen para mejorar la educación vial.…”

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Comportamiento ciclista en el respeto a la luz roja: estudio observacional

Obregón-Biosca

Guerrero

2022

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Se presenta un estudio observacional a través de grabaciones en video en el que se identifican los factores que motivan la decisión de los ciclistas de no respetar la luz roja en una intersección semaforizada. Los resultados del análisis estadístico chi-cuadrada muestran que las variables “hombres de 15-30 años”, “búsqueda visual” y “tamaño de grupo” influyen en la decisión de realizar el cruce en luz roja, mientras que el uso de casco, celular, cubrebocas, bicicleta pública de renta y chaleco reflectivo se asociaron al respeto de la señal de alto durante la duración de la indicación de luz roja en el semáforo.

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“…Furthermore, social influence, which is important in the evacuation process, could not be taken into consideration. It should be emphasized that despite the indicated imperfections, this type of approach is the only way to cover a larger number of road users, and is widely used in safety research [15,21,22,29].…”

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“…The strategy for educational measures should be based on an analysis of the level of knowledge of potential road tunnel users. All policies in this regard should be comprehensive and, importantly, rely solely on proven hypotheses [15,16]. Reporting on the results of the assessment of awareness among road tunnel users should be the first step towards improving their education, including their behavior and knowledge of the safe use of the structures in question [17].…”

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What Is the Knowledge of Evacuation Procedures in Road Tunnels? Survey Results of Users in Poland

2021

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This paper presents a preliminary assessment of road tunnel safety issues among respondents—specifically, real and potential users of road tunnels. We recruited a group of respondents to study their knowledge of evacuation procedures and awareness of safety issues in road tunnels. We conducted surveys with 504 participants, 12.7% of whom had previously participated in real-scale evacuation experiments in a road tunnel. Analysis of respondents’ answers reveals that their knowledge of safety procedures is unfortunately not sufficient. On average, the respondents selected the most recommended answer for approximately 5.35 out of 15 questions. Only 16% of respondents correctly answered more than 50% of the survey questions; moreover, no respondent provided the correct answers for 12 or more questions. Interestingly, most respondents were convinced that they had a better knowledge of road tunnel safety issues than was actually the case. The results of the survey demonstrate a significant educational role of evacuation exercises. Individuals who have participated in an evacuation have better knowledge, allowing them to apply the correct rules of road tunnel safety procedures. Various aspects addressed in this paper can be taken into consideration in an information campaign regarding safety in road tunnels during a fire.

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Rating road traffic education

Cited by 14 publications

References 20 publications

Evaluation of a gamified e-learning platform to improve traffic safety among elementary school pupils in Belgium

Evaluation of a gamified e-learning platform to improve traffic safety among elementary school pupils in Belgium

Comportamiento ciclista en el respeto a la luz roja: estudio observacional

What Is the Knowledge of Evacuation Procedures in Road Tunnels? Survey Results of Users in Poland

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