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To conceptualize road traffic environments as social dilemmas and evaluate how prosocial behavioral frameworks can enhance road safety research and automated vehicle design.

August 16, 2026Traffic Safety ResearchOpen Access

Traffic as a social dilemma? Viewing road user behavior through a prosocial lens

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To conceptualize road traffic environments as social dilemmas and evaluate how prosocial behavioral frameworks can enhance road safety research and automated vehicle design.
Synthesized interdisciplinary literature on prosociality, altruism, and mutualism within the context of transportation systems.
Evaluated the tension between individual self-interest and collective outcomes across human driving and automated vehicle interactions.
Identified traffic as a social dilemma where self-interested driving choices undermine collective road safety and travel efficiency.
Differentiated altruistic (self-sacrificing) and mutualistic (mutually beneficial) actions to clarify theoretical pathways for traffic interventions and cooperative automated vehicle technologies.

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Theoretical review explores prosocial interactions in road traffic systems, highlighting practical implications for automated vehicle programming.

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Öztürk et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a81791ff2fb91fc834ac4bf https://doi.org/10.55329/mjpc6260

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Theoretical review explores prosocial interactions in road traffic systems, highlighting practical implications for automated vehicle programming.

Traffic as a social dilemma? Viewing road user behavior through a prosocial lens

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