Between-Lane Traffic: Convenient for Two-Wheeled Vehicles, but what do Car Drivers Think of It? A Comparative Analysis of Car Drivers’ Discourse on this Typical Behavior of Two-Wheeled Motor Vehicle Users
This study aims to analyze the view of car drivers on lane-splitting by motorized two-wheelers (PTW). Never asked about this typical PTW’s behavior, it is yet a practice that involves them on the operating point of view, despite they are not initiating this behaviour. For this, sixty semi-structured interviews with car drivers chosen for three criteria (city mobility, length of driving license and PTW’s practice or not) have been conducted and have yielded a substancial lexical corpus of information. This corpus has been analyzed with the software ALCESTE. The results of this detailed analysis emphasize, among others, importance of the individuals’ acquaintance with PTW and importance of the context of mobility and its social norms on practice and attitudes about lane-splitting.