This study involved over-the-road testing of four fatigue management technologies (FMTs) in trucking operations in Canada and the United States. Technologies bundled into a single intervention came from four fatigue management domains: one providing objective information on driver sleep need, one providing objective information on driver drowsiness, one providing objective information on lane tracking performance, and one reducing the work involved in controlling vehicle stability while driving. The objective was to determine driver reactions to such technologies and whether FMT feedback would improve alertness, especially during night driving, or increase sleep time on workdays or nonworkdays. A within-subjects crossover design was used to compare the effects of FMT feedback to no feedback. Each driver underwent the conditions in the same order: 2 weeks of no feedback (control) followed by 2 weeks of FMT feedback (intervention). Data from the devices and other driving performance variables were recorded every second of truck operation for 28 days for each driver, with a resulting 8.7 million data records among the 38 drivers. Support was found for FMT effects. During night driving, FMT feedback significantly reduced driver drowsiness (p = 0.004) and lane tracking variability (p = 0.007). However, there was evidence from probed psychomotor vigilance task testing that these improvements may have had cost because of the effort (in attention and compensatory behaviors) required to respond to information from the devices. In general, participants agreed that commercial drivers would benefit from FMT and were more positive about those involving vehicle monitoring than those involving driver monitoring.


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    Title :

    Pilot Test of Fatigue Management Technologies


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record




    Publication date :

    2005-01-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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