TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Investigating driving styles and their connections to speeding and accident experience
JO  - Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies
A1  - Chung, Yi-Shih
A1  - Wong, Jennifer T.
SP  - 1944
EP  - 1958
VL  - 8
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N2  - This study aims to identify habitual driving styles and evaluate how these styles connect to drivers' sociodemographic factors as well as speeding and accident experience. In a quota sample of 247 Taiwanese individuals, an exploratory factor analysis combined with a confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to derive 5 valid constructs including aggressiveness, anxiety, misjudgment, distraction, and unawareness. Moreover, 4 driving styles were identified and analyzed via a K-means cluster and logistic regression analysis. The analytical results showed that the derived constructs significantly differ on their sociodemographic factors, speeding experience, but not on accident involvement. Moreover, the constructs exhibited distinct impacts on the formation of driving styles while exposure factors were controlled. The heterogeneous driving styles explored in this study could reconfirm the heterogeneity of driver personality and accident occurrence found in past studies. General strategies to the sample population and specific strategies to each driving style were discussed.      Keywords: Driver distraction;<p />
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SN  - 1341-8521
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -