Driving simulator performance worsens after the Spring transition to Daylight Saving Time

Driving fatigue increases after the Spring transition to Daylight Saving Time in young male drivers: A pilot study

“…with an analysis relying solely on crash data. Therefore, as already suggested by our group ( Orsini et al, 2022 ), alternative approaches are necessary. The driving simulator experiment designed in this study allowed us to focus on one relevant factor, which is the sleep-related effect of DST on driving fatigue.…”

“… Orsini, Zarantonello, Costa, Rossi, and Montagnese (2022) have proposed an alternative approach, which, instead of analysing aggregated crash counts, investigated changes in specific driving behaviours, such as the propensity towards overtaking violations, reaction times at signalized intersections, safety distance on overtaking cyclists and exiting manoeuvres from freeways. This was achieved by means of a driving simulator experiment in which participants underwent two trials, before and after the Spring transition to DST, and uncovered significant DST-related driving performance impairment, resulting in riskier behaviour, impinging on reaction times and situation awareness, and on the ability to modify behaviour based on recently acquired information.…”

“…This was achieved by means of a driving simulator experiment in which participants underwent two trials, before and after the Spring transition to DST, and uncovered significant DST-related driving performance impairment, resulting in riskier behaviour, impinging on reaction times and situation awareness, and on the ability to modify behaviour based on recently acquired information. Due to the relatively short duration of the driving tasks in the experimental design of Orsini et al (2022) , it was not possible to study the effects of the DST transition on driving fatigue, which is particularly relevant to road safety and worthy of further investigation.…”

The controversy over daylight saving time: evidence for and against

“…Early studies emphasized a significant increase in motor vehicle crash rates following transition into DST, and a smaller decrease in rates following return to standard time [18]. These findings have been recapitulated using driving simulators in a laboratory setting with participants just before and after the spring DST transition [20]. However, many recent studies have not replicated these findings [21][22][23][24].…”

Before-after safety analysis of a shared space implementation

“…TTC is considered one of the most popular surrogate measures of safety (Arun et al, 2021a(Arun et al, , 2021bJohnsson et al, 2018;Tarko, 2018a), and several modifications have been proposed (Nadimi et al, 2020). It has been applied in a wide range of studies investigating interactions between motor vehicles and pedestrians (Haque et al, 2021;Jiang et al, 2015;Kizawi and Borsos, 2021;Lenard et al, 2018;Zhang et al, 2020) or cyclists (Johnsson et al, 2021;Kovaceva et al, 2019;Orsini et al, 2022;Rossi et al, 2021;Zhao et al, 2021).…”