UNDERSTANDING OF SPEED BEHAVIOUR IN RELATION TO ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT: A COMPARISON BETWEEN MALAYSIAN AND VIETNAMESE DRIVERS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11113/mjce.v30.15715Keywords:
Countermeasures, road traffic accident, road design, road infrastructure, speeding behaviour, traffic calming.Abstract
Speed behaviour has always been associated with road traffic accident in Malaysia and
Vietnam. The speed behaviour may vary from one moment to another depending on external
factors or internal factors affecting the driver at that particular moment. Understanding the speed
behaviour between Malaysian drivers & Vietnamese drives are important to pin down the factors
causing the road traffic accident in each respective country, with a countermeasures proposal to
improve driver’s speed behaviour in a long run. Following a set of questionnaire completed by
150 Malaysian and Vietnamese drivers respectively, a certain degree of similarity between
Malaysian and Vietnamese driver’s speed behaviour were observed. The results revealed
similarity in primary factors affecting the driver’s speed choice which are road design (tendency
to speed on wide lane), circumstances of journey (time pressure to meet schedule or deadline),
emotion (impatient and enjoying the feeling while speeding) and strong self-belief (confident in
overtaking other vehicle safely and believing that speeding is normal). In conclusion, Malaysian
and Vietnamese drivers have similar speed behaviour, with countermeasures to improve the
speed behaviour are proposed and discussed.
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