Driver Distractions In Commercial Vehicle Operations

Olson, Rebecca L; Hanowski, Richard J.; Hickman, Jeffrey S.; Bocanegra, Joseph

doi:10.1037/e622372011-001

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“…20,22 Although, to our knowledge, no on-road studies have measured the actual increase in risk of crash imposed by TWD among teenage drivers, the 1 published in-vehicle camera study of TWD among adult commercial drivers reported that the behavior was associated with a 23-fold increase in crashes or maneuvers that greatly increased the risk of a crash. 23 Further, the limited distracted driving research to date suggests that (1) teenagers engage in TWD at least as often as adult drivers 24,25 ; (2) teenagers are less willing to disengage from a distracting behavior even as more road hazards are presented 26 ; and (3) teenagers are less adept at handling driving hazards than more experienced drivers. 26 Findings from this study indicate there is asubgroupofhighschoolstudentsthat engages in multiple risky MV behaviors, including frequent TWD.…”

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Texting While Driving and Other Risky Motor Vehicle Behaviors Among US High School Students

2013

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WHAT'S KNOWN ON THIS SUBJECT: Distracted driving due to texting while driving (TWD) has emerged as an important teenage safety issue. Previous studies have shown that the self-reported prevalence of TWD among teenagers varies widely. WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS:In 2011, 45% of US high school students aged $16 years reported TWD during the past 30 days. TWD was positively associated with other risky motor vehicle behaviors; this association strengthened as frequency of TWD increased. abstract OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence of texting/e-mailing while driving (TWD) and association of TWD with other risky motor vehicle (MV) behaviors among US high school students.METHODS: Data were used from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention' s 2011 national Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which assessed TWD during the 30 days before the survey among 8505 students aged $16 years from a nationally representative sample of US high school students. TWD frequency was coded into dichotomous and polychotomous variables. Logistic regression assessed the relationship between TWD and other risky driving behaviors, controlling for age, race/ethnicity, and sex. RESULTS:The prevalence of TWD on $1 days during the 30 days before the survey was 44.5% (95% confidence interval: 40.8%-48.2%). Students who engaged in TWD were more likely than their non-TWD counterparts to not always wear their seatbelt (prevalence ratio; 95% confidence interval: 1.16; 1.07-1.26), ride with a driver who had been drinking alcohol (1.74; 1.57-1.93), and drink alcohol and drive (5.33; 4.32-6.59). These other risky MV behaviors were most likely to occur among students who frequently engaged in TWD.CONCLUSIONS: Nearly half of US high school students aged $16 years report TWD during the past 30 days; these students are more likely to engage in additional risky MV behaviors. This suggests there is a subgroup of students who may place themselves, their passengers, and others on the road at elevated risk for a crash-related injury or fatality by engaging in multiple risky MV behaviors. Pediatrics

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Texting While Driving and Other Risky Motor Vehicle Behaviors Among US High School Students

2013

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“…INTRODUCTION Although driver distraction has long been recognized as a threat to safe driving, the majority of driver distraction research has focused on general (automotive) driving. While some studies have addressed driver distraction in commercial heavy truck transportation (Olson, Hanowski, Hickman, & Bocanegra, 2009), motorcoach operations have not been examined in a similar manner. In order to determine the possible scope and implications of driver distraction on both types of CMV operations (i.e., heavy truck and motorcoach), a wide-ranging literature review was performed.…”

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Synthesis of Literature Relating to Cellular Telephone/Personal Digital Assistant Use in Commercial Truck and Bus Operations

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“…A trained analyst separated the recordings into "safety critical events" (SCEs) and "baseline" based on visual inspection. The authors acknowledge themselves that the baseline may not be representative for "true baseline" driving, even though they report similar odds ratios as found by Olson et al (2009). For a continuous naturalistic data set clips that would have been triggered by the DriveCam equipment could be extracted from the data and compared to "true baseline" clips, in order to investigate this issue further.…”

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“…Similarly, cognitive distraction cannot be observed from facial expressions (e. g. Peng, Boyle and Hallmark, 2013). Therefore, the studies that report on driver distraction (e. g. Olson et al, 2009;Klauer et al, 2010) are limited to observable instances of "eyes off road" or activities like phone use or eating, that are usually classified as distracting.…”

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Vehicle-based studies of driving in the real world: The hard truth?

Carsten

Kircher

Jamson

2013

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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Real-world studies of driving behaviour and safety have face validity and have the distinct advantage of focussing on driving in its natural habitat. But their very naturalism can lead to problems with confounds and with noise in the data. This paper reviews the three major categories of on-road studies -controlled observation studies, field operational tests and naturalistic driving studiesand discusses the major applications of each study type. It also assesses some of the methodological issues that arise in one or more category of study.

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Driver Distractions In Commercial Vehicle Operations

Cited by 135 publications

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Texting While Driving and Other Risky Motor Vehicle Behaviors Among US High School Students

Texting While Driving and Other Risky Motor Vehicle Behaviors Among US High School Students

Synthesis of Literature Relating to Cellular Telephone/Personal Digital Assistant Use in Commercial Truck and Bus Operations

Vehicle-based studies of driving in the real world: The hard truth?

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