Speeding is one of the principal causes of traffic accidents that harm not only the safety of pedestrians but also the driver himself and others. However, empirical studies on speeding behavior are mostly survey research and identification of cause-and-effect relationship is unclear. Also the reliability of the study results cannot be verified using retrospective methods. To complement this point, it is important to conduct an experimental study, but realworld field research using real vehicles is almost impossible to apply equally to all subjects by controlling surrounding vehicles and signal systems. Therefore, in this study, we compared the overspeed characteristics of high risk driver types using driving simulator. The high risk driver types were divided in to four types: elderly driver, commercial driver, driver with more than 10 years of driving experience, and driver within 2 years of license acquisition. The overspeed characteristics were identified by using an index called Accumulated Speeding (AS). Based on overspeed characteristics differences between driver types, it is expected that additional education by driver type will be possible in the safety education using Driving Simulator.

PURPOSES : Traffic accidents and damage due to speeding should be recognized as a problem which harms society and the economy as well as the parties to the accidents. It is time to seek more detailed and concrete customized alternatives than the existing policies for the prevention of traffic accidents. METHODS: In this study, we identified the characteristics driver behavior and psychological factors that lead to speeding, and a study was carried out to verify the causality models developed from the factors we identified. RESULTS : Driving behavior variables have a significant effect on speeding behaviors in order of Lapse, Violation, and Mistake. And the violation which is defined as intentional violation showed the result which supports the research hypothesis as it has the significant effect on speeding intention and behaviors. CONCLUSIONS: The result of this study can be utilized to develop educational problems concerning speeding and previous response with the main objective of eliminating speeding driver behavior.