Investigating the influential personality and demographic variables of the behavior of public transport and freight drivers in the factors of accidents (case study: Karaj city)

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PhD Candidate in civil engineering, majoring in transportation planning, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Arts and Architecture, Tehran Science and Research

10.22034/road.2024.416580.2200

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Drivers' behavior is one of the most important causes of road accidents and accidents, which can be influenced by countless individual differences such as driving knowledge, information processing, demographic variables and personality. The current research tries to accurately understand this phenomenon among public transport drivers. The sample studied in this research is the drivers of public transportation of goods and passengers in Karaj city. The research method, survey and data collection tool is a questionnaire, the data of which was collected in the form of individual interviews with 200 truck drivers, 220 taxi drivers, 100 inner-city bus drivers, and 68 suburban bus drivers. In this research, using the mentioned questionnaire, six main factors of patient driving, calmness in driving, tendency to fatigue, danger identification, anxious driving and excitement seeking were extracted as driver behavioral factors and the effect of demographic and personality variables on these factors was investigated. Pearson and Spearman correlation tests were also used to test the hypotheses. The results of this research show that the variables of age, level of education, ownership of the vehicle are related to the behavior of the driver, and there is a significant relationship between the personality variables and the driving behavior of professional drivers, and these different aspects of personality and behavior, the differences It justifies the drivers in taking risks and the frequency of accidents.

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