Exploring the impact of time pressure on motorized two-wheeler riders’ over-speeding behavior

ABSTRACT

Despite being inexpensive and the most accessible travel mode, motorized two-wheelers (MTW) are more prone to crashes than other travel modes. Over-speeding is one of the principal causes of such MTW-related crashes. Past studies are nonexistent in exploring the impact of time pressure and psychological constructs on MTW riders’ over-speeding behavior. Therefore, this paper captures the impact of the time pressure situations and identifies psychological segments (based on travel time-related anxiety) on the over-speeding behavior among MTW riders. A two-step modeling approach, including latent class analysis and multinomial logit model (MNL), was utilized for a stated preference survey of 513 Indian MTW riders. The latent class analysis identified three different psychological segments, i.e. minimally anxious, moderately anxious, and highly anxious. Results showed that over-speeding behavior is more likely to increase with travel time-related anxiety levels and hurriedness. The findings are expected to offer potential policy implications for mitigating speeding-related violations.

KEYWORDS:

• Time-pressure
• travel time anxiety
• latent class analysis
• over-speeding
• psychological constructs

Acknowledgments

This research (particularly, part of data collection) is partially funded by Science and Engineering Research Board, India under project titled ‘Modeling and Analysis of crash Risk & Performance of Motorbike Riders under Influence of Human Behavioral Factors’ (funding reference number: ECR/2018/000898). The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of the authors of this paper and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the funding agency.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

The work was supported by the Science and Engineering Research Board, India [ECR/2018/000898].