How to measure risky driving behaviours of electric and motorized two‐wheelers in China? A critical review of current existing tools used towards Chinese drivers
Résumé
Today, Chinese people rely heavily on Electric Two-Wheelers (E2W) both the scooter and the bike styles (Cherry & Cervero, 2007). Together with the Motorized two wheelers (M2W) that would sooner or later be excluded from the road traffic in some big Chinese cities, their production keeps growing (Asian Development Bank, 2009) This phenomenon is going along with a high rank of E2W riders’ mortality. However, understanding of the factors that could explain their accident involvement is still needed. Studies to improve this knowledge are far from being numerous enough. Adopting this objective, we launch a research program which aim to improve specific knowledge about the risk of E2W compared to M2W riders inShanghai. We adopt a social-cognitive psychological approach and we follow urban planning concerns. As a first stage of this research work, we first review the literature aiming to find out what definition is made of dangerous/risky driving behaviors and how there are measured in the Chinese road context. That lead us here to critically report the currently used tools in regards to both cars and two-wheelers dangerous/aberrant/violations driving behaviours. We point out a general lack of definition of the label of violation and that there is actually no formalized definition of risky driving behaviours. We argue the need to go beyond a classical but restrictive design in terms of errors, violations or self/hetero aggressive intent. Finally, we suggest to only refer to Dula & Geller (2003) sole definition of risky driving behaviours in order to be operationalized into items dedicated to E2W and M2W riders.
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