Abstract Introduction: It is obvious that driving without laws and regulations is a threat to every society's order and safety ultimately leading to accidents and loss of life. Several factors play a role in observance of traffic laws and regulations. The main purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of religious beliefs on compliance with traffic laws and regulations that could ...

System dynamics (SD) is a method for learning about complex systems and it includes a range of tools such as causal loop diagrams and computer simulation. SD has been used to facilitate the analysis of complex physical and social systems, e.g. water resources, climate change and industrial accidents. One of the key reasons for its growing popularity is that SD allows policy “experimentation” an...

In Belgium, every year approximately 50.000 injury accidents occur in traffic, with almost 70.000 victims, of which 1.500 deaths (Belgian Institute for Traffic Safety, 2000). Not only does the steady increase in traffic intensity pose a heavy burden on the society in terms of the number of casualties, the insecurity on the roads will also have an important effect on the economic costs associate...

Safety is one of the most important and complex aspects of transportation engineering. It takes a traffic professional considerable time and effort to keep abreast of research in the field of safety as it relates to traffic engineering improvements. Reading through research reports and summarizing the results is an overwhelming task; especially when having to identify the constraints of each st...

Traffic safety analysis has often been undertaken using historical collision data. However, there are well-recognized availability and quality problems associated with collision data. In addition, the use of collision records for safety analysis is reactive: a significant number of collisions has to be recorded before action is taken. Therefore, the observation of traffic conflicts has been adv...

A prototype geographic information system (GIS) for the analysis of motor vehicle collisions in Honolulu, Hawaii, is described. An overview of GIS hardware and software is provided along with criteria utilized in the development of the Hawaii system. Mapping and spatial data sources relevant to traffic safety are described and evaluated. The usefulness of Census Bureau Topologically Integrated ...