a National Technical University of Athens , Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering , Athens , Greece.
Traffic Inj Prev. 2014;15(2):156-64. doi: 10.1080/15389588.2013.801554.
The objective of this study is to investigate patterns of road safety attitudes and behaviors of motorcyclists in Europe on the basis of the results of the pan-European questionnaire-based survey SARTRE-4, carried out in late 2010 in 18 European countries and Israel. In addition, we attempt to explore the link between attitudes, behaviors, and other motorcyclist attributes with motorcyclist involvement in accidents in the past 3 years, in which someone, including the rider, was injured and received medical attention as stated in the motorcyclists' responses.
The various components of motorcyclist attitudes and behaviors such as reasons for driving a motorcycle, driving while impaired, perceived risk factors, and risk-taking behavior were determined by means of a principal component analysis (PCA) on 38 variables contained in the survey. A binary logistic regression model was then applied in order to link the attitudes and the stated behavior with the declared involvement in past accidents.
The results revealed 8 components. Component 1 (driving while impaired and speeding accident factors), component 2 (motorcycle benefits), component 3 (perceived risk of maneuvers), component 4 (sensation seeking), component 5 (road, vehicle, and environmental risk factors), component 7 (no modal options), and component 8 (attitudes toward drinking and friends' drinking) are associated with stated preferences and attitudes, whereas component 6 (dangerous and angry behaviors) is associated with stated behavior. Moreover, it was found that motorcyclists who tend to have dangerous attitudes and behaviors as well as younger motorcyclists are more likely to have been involved in an accident. It was also showed that driving exposure is positively associated with increased probability of a past accident.
The findings of the study provide some insight into the association between attitudes, behaviors, and declared past accident involvement. Furthermore, the analysis of such large databases with the inclusion of many different countries constitutes a step for further research in the field of motorcyclists' behaviors and safety. Supplemental materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Traffic Injury Prevention to view the supplemental file.
本研究旨在基于 2010 年末在欧洲 18 个国家和以色列开展的基于 SARTRE-4 问卷调查的泛欧研究结果，调查欧洲摩托车手的道路安全态度和行为模式。此外，我们试图探索态度、行为以及其他摩托车手特征与过去 3 年中事故参与之间的联系，事故中有人受伤并接受了医疗护理，这是根据摩托车手的回答确定的。
通过对调查中包含的 38 个变量进行主成分分析（PCA），确定了摩托车手态度和行为的各个组成部分，如驾驶摩托车的原因、驾驶时受损、感知风险因素和冒险行为。然后，应用二元逻辑回归模型将态度和陈述行为与过去事故中的声明参与联系起来。
结果揭示了 8 个组成部分。第 1 组成分（驾驶时受损和超速事故因素）、第 2 组成分（摩托车效益）、第 3 组成分（感知操作风险）、第 4 组成分（寻求刺激）、第 5 组成分（道路、车辆和环境风险因素）、第 7 组成分（无模态选项）和第 8 组成分（对饮酒和朋友饮酒的态度）与陈述偏好和态度相关，而第 6 组成分（危险和愤怒行为）与陈述行为相关。此外，研究发现，具有危险态度和行为的摩托车手以及较年轻的摩托车手更有可能发生事故。研究还表明，驾驶暴露与过去事故发生的概率增加呈正相关。
研究结果提供了一些关于态度、行为与声明的过去事故参与之间的关联的见解。此外，通过包含许多不同国家的此类大型数据库的分析，为摩托车手行为和安全领域的进一步研究奠定了基础。本文提供了补充材料。请访问出版商的《交通伤害预防》在线版查看补充文件。
