Educating Younger Drivers in the Pacific Northwest Regarding the Dangers of Distracted Driving

The goal of this outreach project was to examine driver distraction among high school and college students in the Pacific Northwest. Specifically, to identify secondary tasks they consider distracting and determine their self-reported engagement in those same secondary tasks while driving. An interactive presentation was developed and administered to 2,500 younger drivers (approximately 600 participants in each of the four states Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington). Younger Drivers were recruited from high schools and universities in each state. Of those participants, 2,378 younger drivers responded to a pre- and post-survey administered immediately before and two weeks after the presentation. The purpose of the survey was to measure the degree to which the interactive presentation improved younger driver perspectives regarding the hazards of distracted driving. Results indicated that the interactive presentation positively influenced younger driver perspectives, meaning that after the interactive presentation, younger drivers were more likely to correctly identify different types of distracted driving.

• Record URL:
  http://depts.washington.edu/pactrans/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/PacTrans-28-OSU-Hurwitz-et-al.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Cover title: Educating Younger Drivers in the Pacific Northwest Regarding the Dangers of Distracted Driving (Phase II). This document was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  Oregon State University, Corvallis

  School of Civil and Construction Engineering
  Corvallis, OR  United States  97331

  Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium

  University of Washington
  More Hall Room 112
  Seattle, WA  United States  98195-2700

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Hurwitz, David S
  • Boyle, Linda
  • Abdel-Rahim, Ahmed
  • 0000-0001-9756-554X
  • Bham, Ghulam H
  • Cofer, William
• Publication Date: 2015-7-31

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Project Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 40p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Before and after studies; College students; Distraction; Driver education; High school students; Surveys; Teenage drivers
• Geographic Terms: Pacific Northwest
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01579248
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 2013-M-OSU-0028
• Contract Numbers: DTRT12-UTC10
• Files: UTC, TRIS, RITA, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Oct 23 2015 9:35AM