TITEL:
ABSTRACT:
Values, attitudes and behaviour have an impact on traffic safety.
These values, attitudes and behaviour are often related to human
interaction at a specific place, for instance a city. Together
these values, attitudes and behaviours creates cultures in
different rooms of traffic - different traffic cultures. In order
to understand and change values and behaviour in traffic it is
neccesary to know what a traffic culture is.
The aim of this study is to see how the identity of traffic users, opinions and attitudes towards one another reflect their practical knowledge of the traffic culture, that is their cultural competence in traffic. The place is the relevant basis for studying a traffic culture. The purpose is therefore also to map specific places that people has found difficult. Questions answered were: how did people identify themselves? What did they want, what was wrong, who were to blame for the troubles in traffic, what should be done, and at which places did these difficulties occure? What relevance has traffic culture to effectiveness and safety in traffic?
The result from this study show that traffic culture, and in turn, traffic safety is influenced by roles played by different groups in traffic. People who are cultural competent and who spend more time in the traffic room are able to manoeuvre themselves effectively in traffic and they have an important role in creating and reproducing behaviour that, in the end, constitutes a traffic culture.
FÖRFATTARE:
Mikael Jonasson, Kulturgeografiska institutionen vid Göteborgs
universitet
KEYWORDS - SVENSK:
Trafikkultur, åsikters betydelse för trafiksäkerhet,
Göteborg, innehållsanalys, trafikkulturellt kompetent
KEYWORDS - ENGELSK:
Traffic culture, opinions and traffic safety, Gothenburg, content
anlysis, competence in a traffic culture
SESSION:
Trafiksikkerhed
ÅR:
1996
Konferencerapport
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