Using Naturalistic Driving Data to Examine Age and Gender Differences on Seat Belt Use

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dc.contributorVirginia Tech Transportation Instituteen
dc.contributor.authorBao, Shanen
dc.contributor.authorXiong, Huiminen
dc.contributor.authorSayer, Jamesen
dc.contributor.authorBuonarosa, Mary Lynnen
dc.date.accessed2014-11-24en
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-01T18:07:57Zen
dc.date.available2015-07-01T18:07:57Zen
dc.date.issued2014-08-25en
dc.description.abstractTeens and young drivers are often reported as one driver group that has significantly lower seatbelt use rates than other age groups. Objective This study was designed to address the questions of whether and how seatbelt-use behavior of novice teen drivers is different from young adult drivers and other adult drivers when driving on real roads. Method Driving data from 148 drivers who participated in two previous naturalistic driving studies were further analyzed. The combined dataset represents 313,500 miles, 37,695 valid trips, and about 9500 h of driving. Drivers did not wear their seatbelts at all during 1284 trips. Two dependent variables were calculated, whether and when drivers used seatbelts during a trip, and analyzed using logistic regression models. Results Results of this study found significant differences in the likelihood of seatbelt use between novice teen drivers and each of the three adult groups. Novice teen drivers who recently received their driver's licenses were the most likely to use a seatbelt, followed by older drivers, middle-aged drivers, and young drivers. Young drivers were the least likely to use a seatbelt. Older drivers were also more likely to use seatbelts than the other two adult groups. The results also showed that novice teen drivers were more likely to fasten their seatbelts at the beginning of a trip when compared to the other three adult groups. Summary Novice teen drivers who were still in the first year after obtaining their driver's license were the most conservative seatbelt users, when compared to adult drivers. Practical application Findings from this study have practical application insights in both developing training programs for novice teen drivers and designing seatbelt reminder and interlock systems to promote seatbelt use in certain driver groups.en
dc.description.notesPresented at the Fourth International Symposium on Naturalistic Driving Research in Blacksburg, VAen
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dc.identifier.citationBao, S., Xiong, H., Sayer, J., & Buonarosa, M. L. (2014, August). Using Naturalistic Driving Data to Examine Age and Gender Differences on Seat Belt Use. Paper presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Naturalistic Driving Research, Blacksburg, VA. Presentation retrieved from http://www.apps.vtti.vt.edu/PDFs/ndrs-2014/Xiong-NaturalisticDriving-2014.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/53989en
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.apps.vtti.vt.edu/PDFs/ndrs-2014/Xiong-NaturalisticDriving-2014.pdfen
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.relation.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2015.06.006en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectSeatbelt useen
dc.subjectNaturalistic driving dataen
dc.subjectNovice teen drivingen
dc.subjectYoung driversen
dc.subjectOld driversen
dc.titleUsing Naturalistic Driving Data to Examine Age and Gender Differences on Seat Belt Useen
dc.title.alternativeUsing naturalistic driving data to examine drivers' seatbelt use behavior: Comparison between teens and adultsen
dc.typePresentationen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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