Knowledge and behaviour assessment of drivers and community people towards road safety: A baseline study

Recently, road traffic accidents are considered to be the leading cause of death both in developed and developing countries. In Bangladesh, BRAC has recently initiated a new program on road safety in aiming to increase road safety awareness among road users. The ultimate goal of the program is to ac...

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Main Authors:	Samadder, Mrinmoy, Saha, Polin Kumar
Format:	Working Paper
Sprog:	en_US
Udgivet:	BRAC Research and Evaluation Division 2022
Fag:	Motor and non-motor drivers Road safety Traffic rules Vehicles
Online adgang:	http://hdl.handle.net/10361/15877

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spelling	10361-158772022-01-12T21:01:30Z Knowledge and behaviour assessment of drivers and community people towards road safety: A baseline study Samadder, Mrinmoy Saha, Polin Kumar Motor and non-motor drivers Road safety Traffic rules Vehicles Recently, road traffic accidents are considered to be the leading cause of death both in developed and developing countries. In Bangladesh, BRAC has recently initiated a new program on road safety in aiming to increase road safety awareness among road users. The ultimate goal of the program is to achieve “zero fatal road accidents” between Syedpur- Enayetganj road of Nabiganj Upazila in Habiganj district. The study intends to understand the current status of knowledge and practices on road safety of selected motor and non-motor drivers, students, teachers and a group named Community Road Safety Group (CRSG). To achieve this goal, the present study conducts conducted a baseline survey in both intervention and control areas followed by Focus Group Discussion (FGD), in-depth interviews, and investing the CRSG group formation including its activity plan in the treatment area. Findings show that both the drivers and students possess poor knowledge about the traffic rules and the road safety issue. Alternatively, it is also found a significant issue that there is a huge gap between knowledge and behaviour of drivers at time of driving. Finally, it has been revealed that road accidents blame to many contributory factors leading to site-specific road accidents such as a variety of vehicles in a specific road structure, speed of the vehicles, traffic regulations, poor education of students etc. and all of these are interrelated with the human attitude, behaviour and road conditions. 2022-01-12T07:51:05Z 2022-01-12T07:51:05Z 2017 2017-01 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/10361/15877 en_US https://bigd.bracu.ac.bd/publications/knowledge-and-behaviour-assessment-of-drivers-and-community-people-towards-road-safety-a-baseline-study/ application/pdf BRAC Research and Evaluation Division
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topic	Motor and non-motor drivers Road safety Traffic rules Vehicles
spellingShingle	Motor and non-motor drivers Road safety Traffic rules Vehicles Samadder, Mrinmoy Saha, Polin Kumar Knowledge and behaviour assessment of drivers and community people towards road safety: A baseline study
description	Recently, road traffic accidents are considered to be the leading cause of death both in developed and developing countries. In Bangladesh, BRAC has recently initiated a new program on road safety in aiming to increase road safety awareness among road users. The ultimate goal of the program is to achieve “zero fatal road accidents” between Syedpur- Enayetganj road of Nabiganj Upazila in Habiganj district. The study intends to understand the current status of knowledge and practices on road safety of selected motor and non-motor drivers, students, teachers and a group named Community Road Safety Group (CRSG). To achieve this goal, the present study conducts conducted a baseline survey in both intervention and control areas followed by Focus Group Discussion (FGD), in-depth interviews, and investing the CRSG group formation including its activity plan in the treatment area. Findings show that both the drivers and students possess poor knowledge about the traffic rules and the road safety issue. Alternatively, it is also found a significant issue that there is a huge gap between knowledge and behaviour of drivers at time of driving. Finally, it has been revealed that road accidents blame to many contributory factors leading to site-specific road accidents such as a variety of vehicles in a specific road structure, speed of the vehicles, traffic regulations, poor education of students etc. and all of these are interrelated with the human attitude, behaviour and road conditions.
format	Working Paper
author	Samadder, Mrinmoy Saha, Polin Kumar
author_facet	Samadder, Mrinmoy Saha, Polin Kumar
author_sort	Samadder, Mrinmoy
title	Knowledge and behaviour assessment of drivers and community people towards road safety: A baseline study
title_short	Knowledge and behaviour assessment of drivers and community people towards road safety: A baseline study
title_full	Knowledge and behaviour assessment of drivers and community people towards road safety: A baseline study
title_fullStr	Knowledge and behaviour assessment of drivers and community people towards road safety: A baseline study
title_full_unstemmed	Knowledge and behaviour assessment of drivers and community people towards road safety: A baseline study
title_sort	knowledge and behaviour assessment of drivers and community people towards road safety: a baseline study
publisher	BRAC Research and Evaluation Division
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