Traffic violations by young motorcyclists in Indonesian urban roads

Abstract

II is already understood that road users have differences in capability and limitations in driving their car or motorcycle. As a fact, most studies regarding road users were conducted using data from developed countries. It is argued that there are differences in characteristics and consequences of road accidents in developed and developing cities as the impacts of road users' attitudes and behaviors This study aims to investigate the factors underlie traffic violation behaviours and the type of traffic violations by young motorcyclists in urban roads in developing cities. Data were gathered using questionnaire survey in three major cities. Structural equal ion modeling has been performed to analyse the significant factors influencing young motorcyclist in committing traffic violations including to analyse the causal relationship between influencing factors. characteristics of young motorcyclist, and type of violations. Analyses found young motorcyclists were encouraged by different magnitude of influencing factors in violating the traffic regulation compared to the more mature group of motorcyclists, while a general causal relationships were found in these three cities. This highlights the needs to design specialised behavioural change policy to redllce traffic violations among young motorcyclists.