Effect of High Visibility Enforcement Programs on Aggressive Driving Behavior: An Empirical Analysis Using SHRP2 Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS) Data

Sonduru Pantangi, Sarvani; Fountas, Grigorios; Anastasopoulos, Panagiotis; Pierowicz, John; Majka, Kevin; Blatt, Alan

Abstract

This paper investigates the effect of High Visibility Enforcement on different types of aggressive driving behavior: speeding, tailgating, unsafe lane changes and ‘other’ aggressive driving behavior types (occurrence of not-yielding right-of-way and red light or stop signs violations) using SHRP 2 Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS) data. To capture the intensity and duration of speeding and tailgating, scaled metrics are developed. These metrics capture the risk taking behavior of different drivers. To account for possible interrelationship among the metrics, Seeming Unrelated Regression Equation (SURE) models were developed. To analyze the likelihood of occurrence of unsafe lane changes and ‘other’ aggressive driving behavior types, a grouped random parameters ordered probit model with heterogeneity in means and a correlated grouped random parameters binary logit model were estimated, respectively. The results showed that drivers’ awareness of HVE implementation has the potential to decrease aggressive driving behavior.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: Transportation Research Board 98th Annual Meeting
• Start Date: Jan 13, 2019
• End Date: Jan 17, 2019
• Acceptance Date: Oct 10, 2018
• Publication Date: 2019
• Deposit Date: Oct 24, 2020
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2695873
• Related Public URLs: https://trid.trb.org/view/1573317