A SURVEY OF STAKEHOLDERS’ OPINIONS ON SAFETY CONDITIONS OF COMMUTING TRIPS OF GARMENT AND FOOTWEAR WORKERS IN PHNOM PENH

Abstract

Commuting by vehicle of garment and footwear workers in Cambodia has been recognized as daily dangerous trip, resulting in serious accidents of their crowded vehicles including vans, buses, flatbed truck, and long-tailed remorks. Understanding stakeholders’ opinions about this commuting mode, and the causes of traffic accidents are very important for proposing road safety remedies. Stakeholders (155 workers, 100 drivers, 80 general drivers, and 5 representatives from factory and labor unions) were interviewed with questionnaire sheets which were divided into three parts such as socioeconomics, and driving/commuting characteristics, and opinions. However, only opinion part is used for interview with general drivers and representatives. From these data, some statistical models are constructed from both passenger side (safety concern, commuting satisfaction, and willingness-to-pay) and driver side (fare characteristics and perception towards law enforcement). Ordinary least square and ordered regression are used to construct these models under the aid of a statistical software package, STATA. In addition, 30 serious accidents were recorded for cause analysis. Finally, some road safety measures are proposed in term of management system and regulation, training and disseminating, safe vehicle, traffic law enforcement and road infrastructure.