UNDERSTANDING OF SPEED BEHAVIOUR IN RELATION TO ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT: A COMPARISON BETWEEN MALAYSIAN AND VIETNAMESE DRIVERS

Speed behaviour has always been associated with road traffic accident in Malaysia and Vietnam. The speed behaviour may vary from one moment to another depending on external factors or internal factors affecting the driver at that particular moment. Understanding the speed behaviour between Malaysian drivers & Vietnamese drives are important to pin down the factors causing the road traffic accident in each respective country, with a countermeasures proposal to improve driver’s speed behaviour in a long run. Following a set of questionnaire completed by 150 Malaysian and Vietnamese drivers respectively, a certain degree of similarity between Malaysian and Vietnamese driver’s speed behaviour were observed. The results revealed similarity in primary factors affecting the driver’s speed choice which are road design (tendency to speed on wide lane), circumstances of journey (time pressure to meet schedule or deadline), emotion (impatient and enjoying the feeling while speeding) and strong self-belief (confident in overtaking other vehicle safely and believing that speeding is normal). In conclusion, Malaysian and Vietnamese drivers have similar speed behaviour, with countermeasures to improve the speed behaviour are proposed and discussed.