Multi-causal Configuration Analysis of Dangerous Driving Behavior of Taxi Drivers Based on SEM and fsQCA

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1674-0696.2025.07.13

Abstract

Abstract: Taxi is one of the important modes of urban passenger transportation, and the driving behavior characteristics of taxi drivers differ from those of ordinary drivers. To investigate the causes and influencing factors of dangerous driving behavior of taxi drivers, 897 questionnaires on driving behavior of taxi drivers were designed and collected. A structural equation model was constructed to investigate the relationship between enterprise management level, job satisfaction, personal attributes as well as life stress and dangerous driving behavior. The relationship between a single factor and the dangerous driving behavior of taxi drivers was analyzed. The fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis method (fsQCA) was used to analyze the impact of diverse aggregation of different influencing factors on dangerous driving behavior. The results show that there is a significant correlation between enterprise management level, job satisfaction, personal attributes as well as life stress and dangerous driving behavior. Among them, enterprise management level (-0.401), job satisfaction (-0.204), and life stress (-0.216) are negatively correlated with dangerous driving behavior, while personal attributes (0.465) are positively correlated with dangerous driving behavior. There are three high-risk driving behavior paths: enterprise management negligence, driver led, and driver burnout, as well as two paths that inhibit dangerous driving behavior. Among them, the management negligence path is the most likely to cause taxi drivers to develop a tendency towards dangerous driving.

Key words: traffic and transportation engineering; structural equation model; fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis; taxi drivers; driving behaviour; traffic safety

摘要： 出租车作为城市客运的重要出行方式之一，其驾驶人群体的驾驶行为特性与一般驾驶人存在差异。为探究出租车驾驶人危险驾驶行为致因及影响因素，设计并收集了897份出租车驾驶人驾驶行为调查问卷。构建了企业管理水平、工作满意度、个人属性以及生活压力与危险驾驶行为之间的结构方程模型，分析了单个因素与出租车驾驶人危险驾驶行为之间的关系；利用模糊集定性比较分析(fsQCA)方法分析了不同影响因素多样聚合后对危险驾驶行为的影响。结果表明：企业管理水平、工作满意度、个人属性以及生活压力与危险驾驶行为存在显著相关性，其中企业管理水平(-0.401)、工作满意度(-0.204)及生活压力(-0.216)与危险驾驶行为呈现负相关，个人属性(0.465)与危险驾驶行为呈现正相关；存在企业管理疏忽型、驾驶人主导型、驾驶职业倦怠型3条高危险驾驶行为路径以及2条抑制危险驾驶行为的路径，其中管理疏忽型路径是最易导致出租车驾驶人产生危险驾驶倾向的路径。

关键词: 交通运输工程；结构方程模型；模糊集定性比较分析；出租车驾驶人；驾驶行为；交通安全

CLC Number:

U491.31

WANG Lianzhen, ZHOU Ming, CHENG Guozhu. Multi-causal Configuration Analysis of Dangerous Driving Behavior of Taxi Drivers Based on SEM and fsQCA[J]. Journal of Chongqing Jiaotong University(Natural Science), 2025, 44(7): 99-109.

王连震，周铭，程国柱. 基于SEM与fsQCA的出租车驾驶人危险驾驶行为多致因组态分析[J]. 重庆交通大学学报（自然科学版）, 2025, 44(7): 99-109.

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