Seatbelt Design Awareness and Factors for Intercity Express Bus in Peninsular Malaysia
Road collisions and injuries are major challenges encountered in developing countries including Malaysia. According to statistics stated by the Royal Malaysian Police (RMP) and reviews from the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS), more than 6,000 deaths per year were reported due...
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| Language: | English |
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Science & Engineering Research Support Society
2020
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/46308/1/seatbelt_published.pdf http://eprints.usm.my/46308/ http://sersc.org/journals/index.php/IJAST/article/view/3548 |
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| Institution: | Universiti Sains Malaysia |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Road collisions and injuries are major challenges encountered in developing countries
including Malaysia. According to statistics stated by the Royal Malaysian Police (RMP)
and reviews from the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS), more than
6,000 deaths per year were reported due to road collisions. This includes road accidents
involving intercity express buses (IEB) which started in 2003 and keeps increasing from
2007 until 2017. In fact, accidents involving IEB and town buses were rated as the
highest. Therefore, this study was performed in order to reveal safety factors for safety
awareness on intercity express busses. Besides, this paper also provides a study on
seatbelt design awareness that focuses on the passengers and enforcement authorities
responded by the southern, center, east coast and northern region of intercity express bus
passengers. Simultaneously, this study aims to improve the percentage of seatbelt usage
by passengers. Evidence found in this study shows that the main cause of seatbelt design
awareness is because of passengers themselves have great safety awareness and also
enforcement by the authority. Hence, seatbelt design awareness for passengers' safety
should be implemented to improve the percentage of seatbelt usage as well as the
enforcement by every intercity bus provider |
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