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The aim of the paper is to investigate of differences in driving behavior between Greece and Palestine (West Bank Area) via applied of AUTH drivers' questionnaire (ADQ) on different categories of drivers through the analysis of exploratory factor analysis (EFA) based on the structure of four factors. Data were collected from the driver' participants randomly for each country to assess the diversity of drivers behavior and performance. The analysis stage included descriptive analysis, statistical tests, EFA, and logistic regression analysis. The study found that there was a difference in the distribution of the participants according to socio-demographic data and was statistically significant between their responses. The EFA results supported the distinction between the behaviors of drivers in both countries depending on the factors that emerged. The study suggested the names of the factors considering to the question groups, which included commitment of traffic rules and safe driver behavior, driving errors and ordinary violation, weather conditions and daytime, and essential supplies and financial status. The study concluded that road accidents are affecting due to the diversity of drivers' countries. In addition, the ADQ is appropriate to use and analysis of data according to the proposed set of factors and for evaluating the difference between countries in terms of driver behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]