Stopping Behavior of Drivers at Stop-Controlled Intersections: Compositional and Contextual Analysis

This research examines how drivers conduct themselves at stop signs by looking at the effect of different compositional variables (socio-demographic attributes) and ecological variables (physical attributes that affect people’s behavior) on drivers’ decisions to make a complete stop, as required by law. Observational study was designed to collect data at different parts of an urban area, and the binary logit model is used for the analysis. The modeling results show that five variables (age of the driver, number of passengers in the vehicle, presence of law enforcement officers within a block radius, using headlights, and time of the day the trip took place) are statistically significant in explaining relationships between those variables and the stopping behavior of drivers.

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  • Reprinted with permission of the Transportation Research Forum.
• Authors:
  • Woldeamanuel, Mintesnot
• Publication Date: 2012

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 109-123
• Serial:
  • Journal of the Transportation Research Forum
  • Volume: 51
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Forum
  • ISSN: 1046-1469
  • Serial URL: https://trforum.org/journal-of-the-trf/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Logits; Stop signs; Stopping; Traffic violations; Unsignalized intersections
• Subject Areas: Highways; Motor Carriers; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01485289
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 20 2013 5:42PM