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Road Safety Education Centre (RSEC) – evaluation of pilot classes and opinions of selected groups of road users on the issues of road safety and traffic education

Dąbrowska-Loranc Maria, Jankowska-Karpa Dagmara, Wnuk Aneta

Transport Samochodowy

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2021

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z. 2

17--23

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In the years 2016-2018, the Road Safety Education Centre (CEBR) was established at Motor Transport Institute as part of its statutory activity, addressed to various age groups and road users. The article presents the concept of CEBR, the results of the evaluation of educational pilot classes conducted at Centre and the opinions of 50+ drivers on selected issues of road safety, as well as the opinions of children and parents on road safety education.

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W latach 2016-2018 w Instytucie Transportu Samochodowego w ramach działalności statutowej powstało Centrum Edukacji Bezpieczeństwa Ruchu Drogowego (CEBR), adresowane do różnych grup wiekowych i uczestników ruchu. Celem niniejszego artykułu jest przedstawienie koncepcji działania CEBR, zaprezentowanie wyników ewaluacji edukacyjnych zajęć pilotażowych przeprowadzonych w Centrum oraz opinii kierowców 50+ dotyczących wybranych zagadnień bezpieczeństwa ruchu drogowego, a także opinii dzieci i rodziców na temat wychowania komunikacyjnego.

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Survey of pedestrians and car drivers’ attitudes at the area of pedestrian crossings over period of time

Dąbrowska-Loranc Maria, Sicińska Katarzyna

Transport Problems

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2021

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T. 16, z. 4

59--70

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This article presents the newest trends among pedestrians’ and car drivers’ attitudes from a survey performed at a roadside at the area of zebra crossings in Poland in 2018. Trends in road users’ attitudes and performance allow an understanding of the causes of road safety crashes to decrease deaths and injuries. Surveys of attitudes from questionnaires help gauge knowledge of road traffic laws and risky behaviours regarding road safety issues at crosswalks. Data of 800 questionnaires collected in 2018 according to the methodology first adopted in 2015 were analyzed and compared. Reliable and comparable results from 2018 published for the first time show changes in car drivers’ and pedestrians’ attitudes. Over the last three years, there have been changes in car drivers’ declared attitudes and performance towards 4 different road traffic situations at the crosswalks (when a pedestrian is approaching, waiting, entering, crossing). Before and after survey at the zebra crossings showed in 2015 according to questionnaire 88% car drivers declared giving way to pedestrians (in fact during observations on road only 20% car drivers gave way), in 2018 declared 85% car drivers and 78% already gave way to pedestrians on crosswalks. Drivers and pedestrians know the law, but do not always follow them in traffic. According to drivers’ opinions, both pedestrians and drivers display risky behaviours. 78% of pedestrians and 72% of car drivers favored more restrictive laws for car drivers to ensure that they slow down before approaching a crossing to allow pedestrians to cross. Risky pedestrian behaviour was mentioned by 76% of car drivers and pointed out as the main problem at crosswalks. n self-declared questionnaires, 90% of pedestrians stated that they must be extremely careful when crossing. The presented results influenced policy changes for implementation of more safety for pedestrians not only at zebra crossing but also when approaching it in Poland since 2021. The aim of the changes is to reduce pedestrians’ risk while crossing the road.

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Road users’ behaviour study in areas of zebra crosswalks

Dąbrowska-Loranc Maria, Sicińska Katarzyna, Zielińska Anna

Transport Problems

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2021

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T. 16, z. 3

185--198

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Pedestrian safety on crosswalks is extremely vital in Poland since 2015, when the first study on road users’ behaviour on driver–pedestrian encounters in areas of zebra crosswalks were conducted. The second study was carried out in 2018 and its results are published in this article for the first time. The results of the project helped lead to changes in pedestrians’ safety regulations in Poland, increasing the safety of pedestrians in areas of crossing. Since June, the 1st, 2021, drivers of oncoming cars approaching a zebra crossing are obliged to stop to allow pedestrians approaching from the sidewalk to cross the zebra crossing. Data to assess pedestrian safety presented in this article combine a new approach that is a combination of different diagnostic techniques: a surrogate safety measure (nonaccident-based indicators) and the traditional approach: statistical analysis. As a result of the study, the most frequent categories of interactions between drivers and pedestrians and pedestrians itself were characterized on crossing facilities. Videos recording pedestrians’ and drivers’ behaviours, and vehicle speed measurements at pedestrian crossings from 2018 allow to assess the safety of 7 000 pedestrians during behaviour observation in onsite fields: on all crossing facilities, except with light signalization, 55% of pedestrians had to stop and wait at the sidewalks to cross, before an oncoming car. Only 45% of drivers approaching not signalised zebra crossings gave way to pedestrians. Pedestrians aged 60+ entering the road on marked crossings without traffic light waited longer to cross than younger. In residential areas with high traffic volume more drivers stopped at non signalised crossings and gave way to pedestrians. At low speed of vehicle in urban areas pedestrians felt safer and were ready to enter the crossing; their behaviour was more predictable. Results showed dangerous pedestrian behaviours on signal-regulated crossing facilities who failed to obey the traffic lights (7% of red-light crossings). 8% of observed pedestrians crossed the street outside designated pedestrian crossings. Video-recorded speed measurements of over 32 000 vehicles on-site study fields of pedestrian crossings showed that the speed of vehicles was higher than permitted. This article presents the newest characteristics of traffic and pedestrian’ behavior at crossings together with measurements of pedestrians’ speed and loss of pedestrians’ time on different road cross sections in Poland in 2018.