Cultural foundations of safety culture: A comparison of traffic safety culture in China,Japan and the United States |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, United States;2. Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, China;3. EcoTopia Science Institute, Nagoya University, Japan;1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China;2. Institute of Ergonomics, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstrate 15, Garching, Germany;1. Department of Psychology, İzmir Bakırçay University, Turkey;2. Safety Research Unit, Department of Psychology, Middle East Technical University, Turkey;3. Department of Psychology, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey;4. Department of Psychology, Necmettin Erbakan University, Turkey;5. Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway;6. Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia;7. R.S.I. Road Safety Institute "Panos Mylonas", Greece;8. Kosovo Association of Motorization, Kosovo;9. Kazan Federal University, Russia;1. Institute of Transport Economics, Gaustadalleen 21, 0349 Oslo, Norway;2. Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus, Iroon Polytechniou 5, GR-15773 Athens, Greece;1. Safety Research Unit, Department of Psychology, Middle East Technical University, Turkey;2. Necmettin Erbakan University, Turkey;3. TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey;4. İzmir Bakırçay University, Turkey;5. Traffic Research Centre of Finland Ltd., Finland;6. Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia;7. R.S.I. Road Safety Institute “Panos Mylonas”, Greece;8. Kosovo Association of Motorization, Kosovo;9. Kazan Federal University, Russia;1. Department of Traffic and Road Engineering, Civil Engineering College, Hunan University, Lushan South Road, 410082 Changsha, Hunan Province, PR China;2. Department of Transport & Planning, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | Understanding how to assess the influence of culture on traffic safety is important for improving traffic safety globally. Traffic safety culture is embedded in the larger context of country’s cultural norms and values, producing different safety outcomes even when other factors are similar. The current work examines how culture influences traffic safety outcomes in three of the largest automobile countries in the world, but which have very different cultural values and which also have very different traffic safety outcomes: China, Japan and the United States. China has an emerging driver population and cultural values that result in aberrant driving behaviors and “scrambling” to gain the right of way, producing a high number of crashes. Japan has an established driver culture, but an emphasis on reducing risk, which results in a lower rate of crashes. The United States, with the most established “car culture”, has an historical and cultural view of the car as a representation of freedom, leading to choices that result in higher crash rates than many countries around the world. The current work explores these cultural underpinnings for traffic safety culture in each country by establishing the historical basis for a traffic culture, examining road, vehicle engineering and legal standards, and reviewing available crash data and data on safety attitudes. These countries are compared across the different dimensions to establish unique cultural influences on traffic safety. |
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| Keywords: | Safety culture Risk avoidance Crash reduction Driver freedom |
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