TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Attitudes of Greek drivers with focus on mobile phone use while driving
JO  - Traffic injury prevention
A1  - Yannis, George
A1  - Theofilatos, Athanasios
A1  - Marinou, Paraskevi
SP  - 831
EP  - 834
VL  - 16
IS  - 8
N2  - OBJECTIVE: This paper investigates the attitudes and behavior of Greek drivers with specific focus on mobile phone use while driving. <br><br>METHODS: The research is based on the data of the pan-European SARTRE 4 survey, which was conducted on a representative sample of Greek drivers in 2011. The analysis of the drivers' behavior was carried out by the statistical methods of factor and cluster analysis. <br><br>RESULTS: According to the results of factor analysis, Greek drivers' responses in the selected questions were summarized into four factors, describing road behavior, accident involvement probability, but also their views on issues concerning other drivers' road behavior, fatigue driving, enforcement for road safety and mobile phone use while driving. The results of cluster analysis indicated five different groups of Greek drivers: the moderate, the optimistic, the conservative, the risky and the reasonably cautious and the characteristics of each group where identified. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: These results may be useful for the appropriate design of targeted road safety campaigns and other countermeasures.      Keywords: Driver distraction;<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1538-9588
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15389588.2015.1030737
ID  - ref1
ER  -