Does Pedestrian Penalty Affect Pedestrian Behavior? A Case of State of Qatar
Author | Deepti, Muley |
Author | Kharbeche, Mohamed |
Author | Ghonim, Omar |
Author | Madkoor, Ahmed |
Author | Mohamed, Yousef |
Available date | 2022-10-29T08:44:33Z |
Publication Date | 2021-12-31 |
Publication Name | Procedia Computer Science |
Identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2021.03.032 |
Citation | Muley, D., Kharbeche, M., Ghonim, O., Madkoor, A., & Mohamed, Y. (2021). Does pedestrian penalty affect pedestrian behavior? A case of State of Qatar. Procedia Computer Science, 184, 234-241. |
ISSN | 18770509 |
Abstract | Crashes involving pedestrians are a major concern for authorities in many developed and developing countries. To refrain pedestrians from illegal or unsafe road behavior, authorities introduced three pedestrian penalties in the State of Qatar from August 2019. This paper assesses the awareness, perception, and adaptive intentions of the new amendment to the pedestrians’ law. A questionnaire survey, designed in three languages, was distributed online using Qatar University contacts and Twitter account of the General Directorate of Traffic at the Ministry of Interior, State of Qatar. A sample of 521 complete responses was obtained and used for statistical analysis. The results indicated that only 32 % of the respondents were aware of the law amendment before taking this survey. Further, the higher score for perception, adaptive intentions, and awareness showed that the respondents were aware of the risks and the law amendment will have a positive effect on their behavior on road as a pedestrian. The outcomes of the analysis show the efficacy of the law amendment. However, the actual behavior changes need to be studied by analyzing the pedestrian crash data and conducting a before and after study. Moreover, the study of the effects on pedestrians’ behavior, through empirical observations, is proposed to get insight into actual behaviors after law amendment as a part of future work. |
Sponsor | This publication was made possible by a UREP award [UREP25-034-5-008] from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation). The statements made herein are solely the responsibility of the authors. The authors would like to acknowledge the General Directorate of Traffic, Ministry of Interior for their support in collecting responses. We acknowledge Mohamed Elsayyad for his assistance in the translation of responses from Arabic to English. |
Language | en |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Subject | Pedestrian law amendment Pedestrian fines penalties awareness effectiveness State of Qatar |
Type | Article |
Pagination | 234-241 |
Volume Number | 184 |
Open Access user License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
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