DOI: 10.21949/1529972
title: 2011 National Survey of Speeding Attitudes and Behaviors [Supporting Datasets]

description: National Transportation Library (NTL) Curation Note: This dataset was submitted from an USDOT modal research office, in accordance with U.S. DOT’s Public Access Plan (https://doi.org/10.21949/1503647) Section 7.4.2 Data. While this dataset was created prior to the implementation of the DOT Public Access Plan in 2016, the publishing office is committed to sharing its research data with the public. NTL staff has performed Level C Curation, or Enhanced Curation, on this dataset. This means that NTL staff has: converted data into to new preservation-friendly, open file formats; enhanced documentation and metadata to make the dataset more FAIR; and, checked for the presence of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) or other sensitive data, in order to protect privacy. NTL staff has NOT made any changes to individual data values. NTL staff last accessed this dataset on 2024-01-21. Please email NTLDataCurator@dot.gov if you have questions or issues opening files. NTL staff will provide what assistance they can.
description: This dataset supports the conclusions of the report "2011 National Survey of Speeding Attitudes and Behavior (NSSAB)." This is the third in a series of surveys on speeding that have provided data to help further the understanding of driving behavior and to contribute to the development of countermeasures and interventions to reduce speeding. Like the previous studies, this survey yields national estimates of behavior and attitudes toward speeding in the United States. The present study differs from the earlier studies in that it developed and used a driver typology based on the pattern of responses across six speeding behavior questions. Cluster analysis identified three distinct groups of drivers with similar overall behavioral tendencies and, among those categorized, 30% are nonspeeders, 40% are sometime speeders, and 30% are speeders. Driver type is a powerful predictor of norms and attitudes toward speeding behavior, speeding countermeasures, experience with sanctions and crash experience. This report details the findings from the 2011 NSSAB, examining the data using the above mentioned driver typology as well as standard demographics. In the final chapter, results from the current study are compared to those of the 2002 NSSAB and the 1997 NSSAB. Using data from over the last 14 years allows us to identify trends in speeding and driving behavior, especially as new technologies such as cell phones become more pervasive in the driving community.

The data supports the outputs: 2011 National Survey of Speeding Attitudes and Behaviors  https://doi.org/10.21949/1525760; 2011 National Survey of Speeding Attitudes and Behaviors [Traffic Tech] https://doi.org/10.21949/1525896.

NTL staff has reviewed the data and feels that re-identification risk of study participants from this dataset is extremely low.

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