Date of Award
12-2020
Culminating Project Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Applied Behavior Analysis: M.S.
Department
Community Psychology, Counseling and Family Therapy
College
School of Health and Human Services
First Advisor
Benjamin Witts
Second Advisor
Michele Traub
Third Advisor
Odessa Luna
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Keywords and Subject Headings
Systematic literature review, framework, behavioural interactions, motorist, pedestrian, city planner
Abstract
Motorist-pedestrian accidents are the product of human behavioural interactions. These behavioural interactions are studied by many different fields to intervene to prevent such an accident. A systematic literature review was conducted to retain articles that targeted motorist-pedestrian-city planner interactions at crosswalks. A Google Scholar search with keywords yielded 973 articles related to pedestrians, motorists, and crosswalks. Following a rigorous search criteria, 60 articles were retained. Those 60 articles were then codified using a classification system. Articles were classified based on their: a) year of publication, b) intervention components, c) crosswalk type, d) location of the observation sites, and e) journal type. The classification system resulted in the creation of a framework that can be used by future researchers to analyze trends across a given period. Results of the study found that of the 60 articles retained from 1977-2020, 43 were from civil engineering journals (71.67%), 11 were from safety journals (18.33%), and 6 were from applied behaviour analysis journals (10.00%). The most common intervention components were the use of antecedent interventions (e.g., adding environmental stimuli to the crosswalk to prompt behaviour) and cross-contextual factors (i.e., the authors evaluated pedestrian and motorist behaviours under more than one treatment, condition, or time of day). Discussion points are generated for the possibilities of this framework based on the present study’s results and shortcomings.
Recommended Citation
Couch, Matthew, "A Systematic Literature Review of Motorist-Pedestrian-City Planner Interactions: Towards the Creation of a Framework for Future Research" (2020). Culminating Projects in Community Psychology, Counseling and Family Therapy. 78.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/cpcf_etds/78
Comments/Acknowledgements
First, I would like to thank my professors and committee members for their steadfast support during my degree. I have learned and been challenged more in these past three years than I have in my entire life. A special acknowledgement to Ben for your persistence in helping me with countless alterations to my thesis during the pandemic. It was your propelling guidance that instilled confidence and motivated me to press onward.
I would like to thank Katharine for her help in completing the final component of my thesis—reliability. Katharine is a stellar behaviour analyst and an up-and-coming researcher. Please check out Katharine’s research at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Katharine_Kalinowski
To my wife, Emma. I could not have completed this degree without your unwavering love and encouragement. I will spend a lifetime attempting to parallel that same devotion.
"As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness around it." —Albert Einstein