Situation Awareness Analysis on Motorcycle Riders using Quantitative Analysis of Situational Awareness

Abstract

A Traffic accident is caused by the negligence and the low situation awareness of the motorcycle riders. Based on the Indonesian Police traffic data, until May 2018, there were 32,127 motorcycle accidents with 6,009 people died. The highest accidents happened to the riders between 15-19 years old. Thus, feasibility of the motorcycle riders becomes crucial. The purpose of this study is to determine the level of awareness of the motorcycle riders as well as to determine the minimum age level to ride motorcycle. There were 75 respondents participating in this study who were about 17 to 19 years old. The Quantitative Analysis of Situational Awareness method was used to achieve the objective. The results of this study show that 17 years old riders have better situation awareness level than 18 years old ones. Meanwhile, the best situation awareness level is at age 19. It is because of the value of calibration (12.22%) which is smaller than 17 years old (17.52%) and 18 years old riders (26.48%). Therefore, this study recommends the feasibility of motorcycle riders should be 19 years old as the minimum requirement.