Performances and self-declared opinions on handheld mobile phone use (distraction in traffic) in Poland

• Autorzy: Sicińska Katarzyna , Dąbrowska-Loranc Maria

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.20858/tp.2024.19.1.12

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

This article presents the Motor Transport Institute’s research to set out road safety indicators of behaviors and opinions on one of the increasingly important road traffic problems. Two types of studies on the unsafe use of mobile phones and others on board devices (distraction) by road users in Poland between 2014 and 2023 are presented. Safety Performance Indicators (SPI) on handheld mobile phone use from roadside observations and declared opinions on talking, reading messages, checking social media/news, and listening to headphones while driving, cycling, and walking are presented. Overall, 306,240 passenger car drivers observed on all road types all week long in Poland showed a dropping trend (1.8%) between before the study in 2014 SPI 4.1% distracted drivers to SPI 2.3% after the study in 2022. More drivers used mobile phones on single carriageways both in built-up and outside built-up areas. On motorways outside built-up areas, where vehicles are speeding, drivers of passenger cars rarely talk on their handheld mobiles. Results from the first European Union (EU) Baseline project to collect road indicators produced a Key Performance Indicator of 3.8% distracted passenger car (all types of roads, all weekdays and weekend) from 44,011 observed in Poland in 2021. Results from the EU project E-Survey on Road Users’ Attitude, third edition (ESRA3), showed declared opinions of mobile use while driving, cycling, and walking down the street in Poland in 2023 compared to 2018 (ESRA2). A positive trend is seen among car drivers who declared lower use of handheld mobile phones than in 2018 (a drop of 11.2%). The survey showed Polish cyclist used more often headphones to listen to music, checked news and messages than cyclists in Europe in 2023. More by 10.1% pedestrians in Europe than in Poland declared checking social media/news, reading messages/emailing while walking down the street in 2023. This lower rate in Poland can be explained by pedestrian’s legal prohibition of mobile phone use while crossing the street since 2021. There is strong support for policy measures forbidding all drivers of motorized vehicles to use handheld mobile phone use while driving in all of Europe. Enforcement measures are twice as strong in Europe than in Poland. As the number of accidents and fatalities on distraction is unknown, calculating SPI during roadside observations and questionnaire surveys gives in-depth knowledge of the problem. The authors of the paper represent the Motor Transport Institute’s (MTI’s) research institution, which systematically analyzes trends in road safety in Poland during its own, national, and international projects.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

distracted driving; handheld phone use while driving; Road Safety Performance

PL

nieuważna jazda; korzystanie z telefonu podczas jazdy; bezpieczeństwo ruchu drogowego

• Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej
• Czasopismo: Transport Problems
• Rocznik: 2024
• Tom: T. 19, z. 1
• Strony: 143--155
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 28 poz.

Twórcy

autor

Sicińska Katarzyna

• Motor Transport Institute, Jagiellońska 80, Warsaw, 03-301, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4113-5588

autor

Dąbrowska-Loranc Maria

• Motor Transport Institute, Jagiellońska 80, Warsaw, 03-301, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7492-8894

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