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Driving Behaviour and Road Safety at Signalised Intersections in Sicily and Thessaloniki

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Road safety plays an important role in cities as far as sustainability and resilience are concerned. A large number of studies focus on the evaluation of the safety level of road users and especially vulnerable road users. In the framework of this paper an analysis was carried out concerning one of the most important problems at signalized intersections, which are the RLR (Red Light Running) and the YLR (Yellow Light Running) violations. This problem has to do with the behaviour and attitude of drivers as far as their compliance with Highway Code regulations is concerned. The existing situation in relation to RLR/YLR violations was investigated in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece and in Sicily, Italy. Field counts took place in each area followed by data analysis. Two sets of counts (Sicily and Thessaloniki) were used in the framework of this paper in order to investigate the above-mentioned phenomenon. Finally, a comparison between the results concerning both areas was made together with an attempt to investigate through inferential statistics the extent to which both the traffic volume and the category of vehicles affect RLR/YLR. The results can be used as a basis in order to calibrate behavioural models.

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We would like to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to the students (academic year 2017–2018 of the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Program “Design, Organization and Management of Transport Systems” which was organized by the School of Civil Engineering and the School of Rural & Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in collaboration with the Hellenic Institute of Transport, for their assistance with the collection of data in the city of Thessaloniki.

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  1. School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Socrates Basbas & Panagiotis Vaitsis

  2. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, University of Enna Kore, Cittadella Universitaria, 94100, Enna, Italy

    Tiziana Campisi, Giovanni Tesoriere & Antonino Canale

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    Eftihia G. Nathanail

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Basbas, S., Campisi, T., Tesoriere, G., Canale, A., Vaitsis, P. (2021). Driving Behaviour and Road Safety at Signalised Intersections in Sicily and Thessaloniki. In: Nathanail, E.G., Adamos, G., Karakikes, I. (eds) Advances in Mobility-as-a-Service Systems. CSUM 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1278. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61075-3_86

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