The characteristic and factors in traffic hazard perception of youth motorcyclists

• Main Authors: Wu, Pei-Jung, 吳佩蓉
• Other Authors: 王明揚
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/90130870568581737115

碩士 === 國立清華大學 === 工業工程與工程管理學系 === 101 === These years, the traffic fatality rate of youth motorcyclists aged between 18 to 24 second only to elderly’. On the other hand, the highest risk rate cause to death in youth is riding motorcycle in Taiwan. Some literatures mention that only hazard perception has been found to relate to traffic accidents of all the different driving skill. Therefore, the research objective is to investigate characteristic of youth motorcyclists of traffic hazard perception and clarify their judgment reasons in detecting the hazards. A videos-based test, recorded eye movements of youth motorcyclists and measured their ability of hazard perception by using the concept of SAGAT. Then, clarify their judgment reasons of hazard through the semi-structured interview. The result show that the youth motorcyclists have shorter average fixation duration time and more fixation counts in urban area then in country area. And youth motorcyclists are better in ability of hazard perception in country area then in urban area. As a part of interview show that the major reason of detecting the hazard is affecting the travel space, and did not notice the event and having confidence in self driving skills are major reasons that missing the hazards. In sum, youth motorcyclists would miss most potential hazards no matter in urban area or in country area. The research was based on ergonomics. Applies information about youth motorcyclists’ characteristic and ability of hazard perception in traffic education and training to reinforce their hazard perception or redesign the traffic relate facilities would reduce the accident rate of youth motorcyclists.