This report describes the results and conclusions of Assessment of Driver Safety in Commercial Motor Vehicles, a Safety IDEA project aimed at providing further validation of WayPoint (WP), a 4-minute, non-verbal, web-based assessment of a truck driver's propensity for having preventable collisions. Key applications of the WP assessment are: (a) to select safer driver/applicants; (b) to determine who among existing drivers would benefit most from training; (c) to diagnose which issues should be emphasized in training. A total of 1,218 truck drivers from seven different fleet operators completed WP as part of this project. Criterion measures were collected from each of the companies and included, at a minimum tenure with the company and number of preventable (at fault) and non-preventable collisions. The primary criterion measure was based on a driver's preventable crash frequency adjusted for exposure and expressed as an odds ratio, i.e. a driver's crash frequency/average crash frequency in the population of all drivers in the data base. An odds ratio of 1.0, for example, indicates that a driver's crash rate is average among all drivers; 3.0, three times the average, and so on. Four levels of a Poisson-distributed odds ratio were discernable: (a) 0.5, half of all drivers, (b) 1.2, 35% of all drivers, (c) 3.4, 11% of the drivers, and (d) 6.2, 4% of the drivers. In 79 cases, we were provided with a record of complaints from the driving public and the cost of each preventable crash.
Assessment of Driver Safety in Commercial Motor Vehicles. Final Report for Safety IDEA Project 05
2006
24 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Transportation Safety , Road Transportation , Transportation , Transportation & Traffic Planning , Preventable collisions , Driver behavior , Motor vehicle operators , Commercial motor vehicles , Situatinal awareness , Training , Figures , Innovations , Investigations , Implementation plans , Investigator profiles , Transportation safety , WayPoint (WP) , Safety IDEA project
Driver Assistance Systems for Commercial Vehicles - Comfort and Safety
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