There are over 18,500 children below the age of 14 that died from traffic accidents every year in China. The death rate in China is 2.5 times more than that in Europe and 2.6 times compared to the USA. Researchers have shown that half of children's traffic accidents were caused by their own negligence. One of countermeasures is to enhance the children's traffic cognition which can not only reduce the traffic accidents in childhood, but also help them become good drivers when they grow up, and therefore improve the traffic system of the society. This article designed a questionnaire of child pedestrian's traffic knowledge, cognition, behavior, and attitude from them and their parents which suits for a developing country's city—Kunming (in China). Based on the data from 122 primary school-aged children of the city, the child pedestrian's traffic cognition and behaviors were analyzed by statistics including Pearson, Spearman's rho and Kendall's rank correlation. The results showed that there was a considerable difference between the child pedestrian's traffic cognition and behaviors (r=0.805, p =0.005), and a significant correlation between children and parents behaviors (Kendall: rk=0.079, P=0.032; Spearman: rs=0.086, P=0.038). Due to the weakness in the traffic safety education from parents, school, and government for child pedestrians, some feasible educational and practical measures on educating children's traffic safety were put forward for cities in developing countries.
Traffic Cognitions, Behaviors, and Education of Child Pedestrians: A Case Study in Kunming, China
Seventh International Conference on Traffic and Transportation Studies (ICTTS) 2010 ; 2010 ; Kunming, China
Traffic and Transportation Studies 2010 ; 605-614
2010-07-26
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
Traffic Cognitions, Behaviors, and Education of Child Pedestrians: A Case Study in Kunming, China
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