Taxi Driver Speeding: Who, When, Where and How? A Comparative Study between Shanghai and New York City

Speeding is one of the most significant contributors to traffic crashes and is a hot issue nowadays in urban areas. However, limited research has been conducted to fully explore the driving style characteristics and situational variables associated with urban speeding issues. This study proposes a Driver-Road-Environment Identification (DREI) method to investigate the determinant factors of taxi speeding violations. The driving style characteristics, road and environment variables were obtained based on the GPS data and auxiliary spatio-temporal data in Shanghai and New York City (NYC). The results revealed that the speeders in both cities had shorter working hours and longer daily driving distance than ordinary taxi drivers, while their daily income were similar. Speeding drivers generally preferred long distance trips (>10km) and relative faster routes rather than the shortest ones. They were more likely to commit speeding violations in suburban areas and at a high speeding rate on arterial roads with long segments and good traffic condition. Time of day was another important factor, as more speeding violations were found occurring between 4:00 AM to 7:00 AM and the worst time was between 5:00 AM to 6:00 AM in both Shanghai and NYC. Findings of this study may assist to stipulate relevant laws and regulations such as stronger early morning and suburban areas supervision, shift-rule regulation and working hour restriction to effectively reduce the risk of potential crashes.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE30 Standing Committee on Transportation Issues in Major Cities.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Huang, Yizhe
  • Sun, Daniel Jian
  • Tang, Juanyu
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
• Date: 2017

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 20p
• Monograph Title: TRB 96th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Driver performance; Global Positioning System; Periods of the day; Speeding; Suburbs; Taxicab drivers
• Geographic Terms: New York (New York); Shanghai (China)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01628221
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 17-06812
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 7 2017 10:25AM