Investigating the Relation between Pedestrian Attitudes and Behaviors in Turkey

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between pedestrian safety attitudes and pedestrian behaviors by using the attitude questionnaire developed for this study. For this purpose, in the process of data collection, the data were collected from a total of 553 pedestrians whose age ranged from 18 to 55 by using the newly developed Pedestrian Attitude Questionnaire and Pedestrian Behavior Scale developed by Nordfj？rn ve ？im？eko？lu (2013). Exploratory factor analysis for the newly developed Pedestrian Attitude Questionnaire showed a two-factor structure named as attitudes towards other road users and attitudes towards traffic rules. To examine the relationship between pedestrian attitudes and pedestrian behaviors, hierarchical regression analyses were conducted. The results showed that attitudes toward other road users were positively related to transgressions and aggressive violations and negatively related to attentional violations, and attitudes toward traffic rules were positively related to transgressions, attentional violations, and aggressive pedestrian behaviors