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Analysis on the Compliance Factors for the Voluntary Surrender of Driver s License for Senior Drivers

Purpose - To study the factors that are related with compliance for the voluntary surrender program of drive’s license for senior drives and to estimate the rate of voluntary surrender. Design/methodology/approach - We online surveyed 147 individuals in order to analyze the intention to comply the program. The surveyees were driver s license holders aged 54 to 65 and drawn to answer their willingness to comply in a 5-point Likert scale. We developed an ordered probit model to analyze the data. Findings - According to the main results of the empirical analysis, the higher the average number of driving per week, regardless of gender and age, the more negative was the driver toward voluntarily surrender of driver s license. Various policy measures need to be prepared to activate the voluntary surrender system using the willingness to voluntarily surrender the driver s license and the characteristics of the voluntary returners, and the implementation of customized safe driving training for elderly drivers may be one such method. Research implications or originality - Population aging is known to cause various social problems, and in the transportation field, the number of elderly drivers and traffic accidents by elderly drivers are also increasing. The government is implementing a program for elderly drivers to voluntarily surrender of their driver s licenses in order to reduce traffic accidents caused by elderly drivers. If only elderly drivers who rarely drive surrender their driver s licenses then traffic accidents may not reduce as much as the program targets, however, and further policy instruments may be needed.