title: Attitudes of Greek Drivers with Focus on Mobile Phone Use While Driving.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This article investigates the attitudes and behavior of Greek drivers with specific focus on mobile phone use while driving.
  
  
  METHODS
  The research is based on the data of the pan-European SARTRE 4 survey, which was conducted on a representative sample of Greek drivers in 2011. Analysis of the drivers' behavior was carried out by the statistical methods of factor and cluster analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  According to the results of factor analysis, Greek drivers' responses in the selected questions were summarized into 4 factors, describing road behavior and accident involvement probability as well as their views on issues concerning other drivers' road behaviors, fatigued driving, enforcement of road safety, and mobile phone use while driving. The results of cluster analysis indicated 5 different groups of Greek drivers--the moderate, the optimistic, the conservative, the risky, and the reasonably cautious--and the characteristics of each group where identified.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These results may be useful for the appropriate design of targeted road safety campaigns and other countermeasures.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering, National Technical University of Athens , Athens , Greece.
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yannis
authors.affiliation: a Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering, National Technical University of Athens , Athens , Greece.
authors.forename: Athanasios
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Theofilatos
authors.affiliation: a Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering, National Technical University of Athens , Athens , Greece.
authors.forename: Paraskevi
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Marinou
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D001334:Automobile Driving / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D040421:Cell Phone / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D006115:Greece; D006801:Humans; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: cluster analysis; driver behavior; drivers' attitudes; driving; factor analysis; mobile phone; road safety