When disobedience becomes habit: Effect of travel behaviours of motorcyclist on repetitive traffic violations in three Indonesian Cities

Abstract

Recent studies suggest that traffic violations have certain relationships with personal travel behaviours and increase the risk of accidents as well. While explorations of traffic violations and travel behaviours were extensively reported from developed countries’ experience, little is understood about the implications of travel behaviours to traffic violations in the developing world’s setting where motorcycle’s users are growing very rapidly and well known as aberrant road users. This study has an aim to explore the effects of travel behaviour on traffic violations utilising datasets from three metropolitan cities in Indonesia (Bandung, Yogyakarta and Surabaya). Based on questionnaire surveys among Indonesian motorcyclists with sample size of a thousand in each city, an analysis was completed using structural equation modelling methodology. This study reports that the way people travel for their everyday mobility with motorcycle has significant influence on the construct of repetitive traffic violations. Analysis shows that motorcyclists who commute for longer trips and more frequent are more frequent to violence. But, the findings cannot be generalized for different cultural background. This study reveals the different city has different result, where it has a possible reasoning as different cultural background.