ผลกระทบของลักษณะมาตรฐานรถโดยสารและสถานะทางกฎหมายของผู้ประกอบการต่อสถิติการเกิดอุบัติเหตุรถโดยสารในประเทศไทย : กรณีศึกษา รถโดยสารระหว่างจังหวัดเส้นทางหมวด 3 / ปณิธิ สามนคร = Effects of bus type standards and operator's legal status on bus accident statistics in Thailand : case of inter-provincial bus route group 3 / Paniti Samnakorn
The objective of this study is to study the factors effecting the occurrence of bus accidents by the situation in which Thailand has the second highest death toll from road accidents in the world. To reduce accidents such as the policy to cancel the van to serve as a bus and determining that the bus operator must be registered as a legal entity. This research will study the factors of the characteristics of the bus type standards and the legal status of the operators in order to have empirical evidence that such policies should be implemented or not. In this study, the same approach was used in the past for bus routes between Bangkok and the provinces (route group 2) using Poisson's regression model and the negative binomial regression model to analyze the relationship between bus type standards and operator's legal status by studying additional routes group 3 or inter-provincial route. The results of Poisson and negative binomial regression analyses confirm that the use of vans, the second class and fourth class have impact on safety risk. But the evidence does not support the government’s claim that requiring operators to register as legal entities would make intercity services safer. The key policy implications should focus on operational characteristics and the standard of bus classes.
