ABSTRACT：As the importance of the public transportation and its usage increases, bus safety draws more attention. Safety education is a major countermeasure to improve bus drivers’ safety awareness and driving behavior. Current safety education treats all bus drivers in the same way and it neglects the difference needs in behavior improvements between drivers. In order to better implement bus driver safety education and behavior intervention, this paper analyzes bus drivers’ crashes, violations and risk driving behavior. The data this study used were extracted from police database for a bus company, including drivers’ naturalistic driving video, personal characteristics, violation and crash records. The naturalistic driving video was used to analysed drivers’ risk driving behaviour; the crash and violation data were used to analyse the characteristics of bus drivers’ violation and crash. An ordered logit model was employed to develop the effect of personal characteristics and violations on crash occurrence. Key results show that 1) the most common risk driving behaviour among bus drivers is parking violation at bus stop; 2) 16.4% of all drivers are involved in 57.2% of the crashes; 3) drivers with the increase in violations tend to be more crash-prone; 4) male bus drivers and drivers with less than 11 years driving experience are more likely involved in crashes. The results of this study can provide guidance for bus drivers’ safety education and behavior intervention.
Ruirui Li, Xuesong Wang*, Analysis of Bus Drivers' Crashes, Violations and Risk Driving behaviors. World Transportation Convention (WTC 2019), Beijing, China, 2019.07.