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Analysis of Driving Safety and Cellphone Use Based on Social Media

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The use of mobile phones while driving is a major driver distraction leading to traffic accidents. Using Twitter Archiving Google Sheet, this paper collected 5,208 tweets containing the hashtags: #distracteddriving, #textanddrive, #textinganddriving. By using R studio and Tableau, the tweets data was visualized and aggregated. The virtual cellphone distracted driving community was also mapped through Gephi. The results could visualize the snapshot of the attitudes and opinions surrounding driving safety and cellphone use.

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Acknowledgements

This study was partially supported by the Natural Science Foundation (1726500). The findings and conclusions of this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of NSF.

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX, 77710, USA

    Chao Qian, Yueqing Li & Wenchao Zuo

  2. School of Business, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, Jiangsu, China

    Chao Qian, Wenchao Zuo & Yuhong Wang

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Qian, C., Li, Y., Zuo, W., Wang, Y. (2020). Analysis of Driving Safety and Cellphone Use Based on Social Media. In: Stanton, N. (eds) Advances in Human Factors of Transportation. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 964. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20503-4_47

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