Objective
Traffic Safety Culture (TraSaCu) aims at developing a cultural approach in road traffic safety research and accident prevention. Traditional approaches to traffic safety shall be complemented by a cultural perspective which has emerged recently in safety research and prevention. Safety culture has been identified as an important factor of road safety as it helps understanding and explaining the typical patterns of risk perception and risk taking that prevail in different national, regional or local traffic systems as well as their relationships with numbers and forms of accidents. A weak safety culture produce higher numbers of accidents which are more severe. A strong safety culture helps reducing the number of accidents as well as mitigating their severity. It strengthens safety relevant attitudes and behaviour and it is also a condition for making road safety measures more effective.
According to a working definition of the US Department of Transportation Safety Council (US DOT), traffic safety culture is defined as the shared values, actions, and behaviours that demonstrate a commitment to safety over competing goals and demands. However, a unified concept of safety culture still does not exist. Therefore, the project will elaborate an empirically grounded and theoretically adequate concept of traffic safety culture, based on this definition by conducting a number of case studies of different traffic safety cultures across Europe. It focuses on the safety cultures that emerge under different institutional, demographic and topographical conditions and their influence on the numbers and forms of accidents.
Research focuses on the culturally mediated interaction between traffic participants and their environment in terms of the cultural patterns of risk taking and risk perception. It also looks at those cultural elements that can be changed easily in order to improve road safety of the investigated traffic systems.
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Coordinator
1100 Wien
Austria
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Participants (9)
112 53 Athina
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12616 Tallinn
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1051 Tirana
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06800 Ankara
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00990 Helsinki
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
1051 Tirana
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
2594 AW 'S-gravenhage
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
Tirane
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1040 Wien
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Partners (3)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
10000 Pristina
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
24061 Blacksburg Va
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
59717 Bozeman
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