We examine attitudes and behaviors regarding safety equipment, documents, and preparedness among motorcyclists and students, and how these influence their offending behavior. To further investigate violation behavior, the effects of the quality of the infrastructure, personal and travel characteristics and the experience of accidents have also been included in the variables. More importantly, the article uses a developing country as a case study, which, to our knowledge, has rarely been done in the past.
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As per your suggestion to mark the revisions we made, we used yellow highlight in the manuscript as well as the description section at the bottom of the reviewer's response note to explain to the reviewers about the revision and improvement we made. To understand the offending behaviour, the effects of personal and travel characteristics, driving conditions and the. We have added the explanation in the sampling method and the survey method to explain how we minimize sampling bias.
We move the development of hypotheses (Figure 1) to the methodology to improve the clarity of the analysis.
Introduction 2. Literature
The methods chapter, as it stands now, does not provide methods, but instead describes data. This is more related to the case study description, which should be provided as a separate section. I will also move Chapter 4 (Traffic Offense Model) and the model construction (Figure 1) here by providing more information about the methodology used and how it works.
If so, the authors should also be consistent in the naming of this element, otherwise the reader may get confused.
While the higher number increases the impact on the positive/negative ratio in the coefficient. In the Discussion chapter, I think there is no connection between the first sentence and the lists of hypotheses. This study aims to explore how the role of attitude towards driving safety, behavior regarding safety equipment, documents and preparedness and road conditions influence.
Personal and travel characteristics, driving conditions, and accident experience were also included in the variables to further explore offending behavior. This study used data on motorcycle users in Bandung, Indonesia as a representative of developing countries. In the SEM model (Table 5.), we found that poor physical condition (i.e. fatigue, tiredness, sleepiness) (positive sign with a significant level) tends to increase traffic violations.
For other results, we already compare with other studies whether this study supports previous studies or extends the results. In the conclusion (which should be listed as a separate paragraph), authors introduced "policy implications" that have never been cited before. This study investigates how attitude towards driving safety factors, behavior regarding safety equipment, documents and preparedness, and perceived road condition quality affect the violation behavior.
Using data from the city of Bandung, Indonesia, the results of this study also contribute to the enrichment of knowledge about traffic accidents in developing countries. A positive attitude towards driving safety does not directly influence positive behavior regarding willingness to drive safely and, consequently, the reduction of traffic offences. While this study provides more information about traffic violations in Indonesia, a limitation of the study should be noted.
This study used aggregated data for a one-week period during and before the outbreak. The role of attitude, behavior and road conditions in traffic offenses among workers and students in Bandung, Indonesia. In the introduction and hypotheses, we have added a more detailed explanation of the attitude towards driving safety.
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The Role of Attitude, Behavior, and Road Conditions in Traffic Violation among Workers and Students in Bandung City, Indonesia
- INTRODUCTION
- DRIVING VIOLATIONS AND TRAFFIC SAFETY As a backbone of the transport system, ensuring the safety
- METHODOLOGY
- Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)
- Research Hypotheses
- DATA COLLECTION 1. Questionnaire Development
- Data Description
- MODEL OF TRAFFIC VIOLATION
- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
- First Hypotheses
- Second Hypotheses
- Third Hypotheses
In terms of driving behavior, breaking the rules increases the likelihood of accidents and is related to risky and aggressive driving [27]. Most of the attitudinal and traffic violation studies have adopted the approach of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) [29]. The structural model in SEM is used to capture the regression effect of the exogenous variables on the endogenous variables.
Therefore, based on the findings of the previous literature [1, 8, 12], a theoretical connection between the role of attitude and behavior in driving safety and infrastructure and driving conditions in influencing violations and consequent traffic accidents was developed. Previous studies have shown that the quality of road conditions affects aggressive driving and speeding and consequently the occurrence of accidents [8, 11]. The second part of the questionnaire asked about trip characteristics such as travel distance, travel time, and motorcycle characteristics (i.e., engine displacement and vehicle year).
In order to increase the randomness of the sample, some interviewers who were randomly recruited through social media also helped in distributing the questionnaire. The relationship in Table 5 is represented by a matrix between the variables of the first column (ie, exogenous and endogenous variables) and the first row of the table (ie, endogenous variables). A larger number of variables increases the influence of the positive/negative relationship on the coefficient.
In terms of motorcycling in years, it has been observed that younger motorcycle users tend to be associated with a high appreciation of city road conditions. Students who have longer commuting distances tend to have a lower rating of the quality of road conditions. Vehicle characteristics were found to influence the attitudes of student motorcyclists, while there was no significant effect on workers.
Second, due to the influence of road conditions on traffic violations, improving infrastructure and road safety features (eg road markings, signs, etc.) and traffic management is an important priority for the agenda of city government. While this study provides more information on traffic violations in Indonesia, the limitations of the study should also be considered. Therefore, driver behavior and attitudes can be compared to that measured directly.
This research was funded by the Institut Teknologi Nasional Bandung International Publication Research Grant under Contract No. This author acknowledges funding support from the Institut Teknologi Nasional Bandung International Publication Research Grant.
