Abstract
The practice has proven that relying solely on large-scale transportation facilities cannot fundamentally alleviate urban transportation problems. Since the motor vehicle drivers are the main participants of transportation, they should improve their knowledge of transportation. Moreover, the drivers should equally cope with transportation problems. This paper establishes an evaluation index system for traffic literacy of urban drivers. In addition, it proposes a method of information contribution sensitivity to optimise the index system. The main results and achievement of this paper include the following: (1) A traffic literacy evaluation index system including 13 evaluation indexes such as traffic rules and general knowledge of machinery has been constructed. (2) Based on the calculation results of the sensitivity of the information contribution, the first 10 indexes that satisfy the cumulative information contribution rate’s value of greater than 90% are retained and 3 indexes with lower contribution rates are eliminated. This study provides a theoretical framework and basic methods to evaluate the traffic literacy of urban drivers.
Highlights
With the rapid development of urbanisation, the total demand for transportation and motor vehicles has continued to increase
According to estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO), about 1.35 million people die from road traffic injuries, which means that 3,700 people die from road traffic accidents every day (2018) [1]
Other studies have proved that human factors cause more than 90% of traffic accidents [2, 3]. e practice has proven that relying solely on largescale transportation facilities cannot fundamentally alleviate urban transportation problems
Summary
With the rapid development of urbanisation, the total demand for transportation and motor vehicles has continued to increase. As the main participants of transportation, motor vehicle drivers should improve their transportation literacy and jointly cope with transportation problems To this end, this article attempts to establish and optimise a model for evaluating urban driver traffic literacy to create a theoretical foundation to evaluate the traffic literacy of urban drivers. Research on traffic literacy evaluation indexes at home and abroad is scarce, and most literature has focused on researching the factors that affect traffic accidents [4,5,6]. Based on the existing literature analysis, this paper sorts out the factors that affect the driver’s traffic literacy and uses an improved mathematical method to screen the indexes, hoping to lay a theoretical foundation for the further evaluation and improvement of the driver’s traffic literacy. All indexes are weighted according to the proportion of each index’s information contribution sensitivity to the sum of all indexes’ information contribution sensitivities. e weight of the indexes reflects the relative information content of different indexes
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