Abstract
In South Korea, drivers may have lower awareness about roundabouts which have been provided for just a decade. This may call for affecting the compliance rates with traffic rules. Given in this mind, this study explored the relationship between the awareness and the compliance with traffic rules at roundabouts using a multivariate statistical method, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The research hypotheses were that driver experience and awareness are the factors affecting compliance with traffic rules. As the result, the higher the awareness of roundabouts, the higher compliance rates with traffic rules. It is recommended that transportation jurisdictions need to educate drivers in Korea for raising the awareness at a roundabout. The authors expect that the result may play a role in reduction in traffic crashes at the roundabouts in South Korea.
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This work was supported by the National Research Foundation (NRF) grant funded by the Korea Government (MSIP) (NRF-2017R1A2B4008984).
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Kim, JJ., Kim, S., Chung, Y., Song, TJ. (2019). Compliance Analysis on Traffic Rules of Roundabouts: A Case Study of Goyang, South Korea. In: Stanton, N. (eds) Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 786. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93885-1_83
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