Vehicle modification prescription for drivers with disabilities: development of consensus based prescription guidelines to optimise user interfaces and safety

Vehicle modifications (VMs) may be essential to ensure drivers with disabilities can access and drive motor vehicles independently and safely: safer driver-vehicle interfaces are an important contributor to meeting the goals of ”Toward Zero” for this driver group. Occupational therapy driver assessors (OTDAs) routinely prescribe vehicle modifications based on individualised assessments. Following stakeholder consultation, safe systems and human factors analysis and a literature review, we identified resource gaps in information to support a licensing authority approved, and evidence based, VMs prescription process. Using an action research approach, we established content validity for items and developed consensus-based draft VMs prescription guidelines ready for trialling by OTDAs.

• Record URL:
  • http://acrs.org.au/publications/acrs-conference-papers/acrs-database/
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Extended abstract only
• Authors:
  • Di Stefano, M
  • Stuckey, R
• Conference:
  • Australasian Road Safety Conference, 2018, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Publication Date: 2018-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 3p
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the 2018 Australasian Road Safety Conference, 3-5 October, Sydney, New South Wales

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Driver vehicle interfaces; Drivers; Human machine systems; Literature reviews; Persons with disabilities; Safety; Vehicle design
• ATRI Terms: Disabled person; Driver; Human machine interface; Literature review; Safety; Vehicle design
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01704327
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: May 2 2019 2:20PM