Projet TraSaCu (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

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.

Mots clés : traffic safety culture, mobility behaviour, road safety, action framework

Participants :
- Telecommunication and computer networking tcn shpk (Albanie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 36000.0 €
- Tallinn University of Technology (Estonie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 54000.0 €
- Co-plan instituti per zhvillimin ehabiitatit (Albanie) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 27000.0 €
- Polis University (Albanie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 13500.0 €
- Elliniko institouto erevnas kai ekpaidefsis gia tin odiki asfalia kaitin prolipsi kai tin miosi ton trochaion atichimato panos mylonas (Grèce) — Partner, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 108000.0 €
- Montana State University System (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Amrks (Kosovo) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- TU Wien (Autriche) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 18000.0 €
- Middle East Technical University (Turquie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 103500.0 €
- Austrian Road Safety Board (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 58500.0 €
- Suomalainen liikennetutkimuskeskus oy (Finlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 81000.0 €
- Virginia Tech (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Stichting Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Verkeersveiligheid (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €