A Study on Driver’s Stress Consciousness towards Child-Pedestrian on Residential Street

Abstract

In Japan, according to the statistics of the number of deaths by road type, the rate of decrease in the number of deaths and injuries of roads (residential street) with a roadway width of less than 5.5 m is smaller than that of arterial roads. Also, since there are many casualties and injuries in young children 's walking accidents, it is important to ensure the traffic safety of children’s pedestrians on residential streets. However, there are not many things studying children's pedestrian traffic safety, focused on the awareness of drivers who are at risk of hurting children's pedestrians. In this research, we focused on the consciousness of the driver and clarified the stress consciousness of children’s pedestrian on residential streets. As a result, it became clear that the walking position of a child affected stress consciousness. In addition, classification into high and low consciousness levels and factor analysis using binomial logistic regression analysis revealed that family composition, awareness of residential streets, driving consciousness influenced driver’s stress consciousness.