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Awareness, riding behaviors, and legislative attitudes toward electric bikes among two types of road users: An investigation in Tianjin, a municipality in China.
- Source :
- Traffic Injury Prevention; 2019, Vol. 20 Issue 1, p72-78, 7p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- <bold>Objective: </bold>This study aimed to understand the awareness, riding behaviors, and legislative attitudes of electric bike (e-bike) users and non-e-bike road users toward e-bikes in Tianjin, a municipality in China.<bold>Methods: </bold>This cross-sectional investigation included 2 components. The field survey was conducted in 9 districts (4 urban and 5 rural) from 2015 to 2017. Adult participants were interviewed using a street intercept method. The online survey was conducted using the WeChat social platform. A series of questions related to awareness and practice of e-bike safety-related issues was asked.<bold>Results: </bold>A total of 16,859 interviews were completed, including 1,653 (794 e-bike users and 859 other road users) in-person interviews by field survey and 15,206 (4,426 e-bike users and 10,780 other road users) by online survey. Except for ignoring a red light when making a left turn (P = .000) and waiting across the white line at a red light (P = .000), which e-bike users were lower than other road users, there were no significant differences between e-bike users and other road users in regards to the correct awareness rate of riding in the opposite direction, riding in a motor vehicle lane, running red lights, jaywalking, speeding, carrying adult passengers, and riding on the expressway (P > .05). In addition, 74.2% of e-bike users considered helmet use necessary (P = .000) and 54.7% thought that installing a windshield is wrong (P = .000), which was higher than other road users (49.1 and 48.4%, respectively). Other road users had greater awareness than e-bike users regarding whether turning left at a red light is wrong (91.7 vs. 85.1%), waiting across the white line when the light is red is wrong (86.6 vs. 75.9%), lighs should be turned on at night (94.8 vs. 90.3%). Correct practices were far behind awareness in all kinds of violation behaviors (P = .000) among e-bike users in the field survey. The rate of public support for legislation including those who very much support and support legislation was 93.34% in the field survey and 87.68% in the online survey.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>E-bike users had lower correct awareness rate than other road users regarding e-bike violation behaviors but were more concerned about safety protection than other road users. E-bike users' correct practices were far behind their awareness for all kinds of violation behaviors. Public education on the traffic law needs to be strengthened among e-bike users. The public strongly supported special regulations for e-bike use, such as helmet use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ELECTRIC bicycles
ROAD users
TRAFFIC regulations
CITIES & towns
PUBLIC support
COMPUTER surveys
MOTOR vehicle statistics
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
COGNITION
COMPARATIVE studies
ELECTRONIC equipment
RESEARCH methodology
MEDICAL cooperation
METROPOLITAN areas
RESEARCH
RISK-taking behavior
RURAL population
SAFETY hats
TRAFFIC accidents
EVALUATION research
CROSS-sectional method
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15389588
- Volume :
- 20
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Traffic Injury Prevention
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 135802315
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15389588.2018.1511898