Heavy vehicle driver fatigue project

The heavy vehicle driver fatigue project is the first international large scale project to validate alertness monitoring technology and use it to evaluate the impact of work-rest scheduling features on alertness and drowsiness in order to inform fatigue policy. Four different data sets were used including: two detailed instrumented vehicle studies conducted within the project involving more than 300 driver shifts; and collection and evaluation of retrospective alertness monitoring data from more than 150,000 shifts between 2015 and 2018 in conjunction with industry partners. This enabled evaluation of the impact of timing and duration of shifts, number and pattern of consecutive shifts, and duration and timing of rest breaks on alertness and drowsiness events, with consistent findings from the different project elements.

• Record URL:
  http://ntc.gov.au/publications/
• Corporate Authors:

  National Transport Commission (NTC)

  Level 15, 628 Bourke Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
  Melbourne, Victoria   

  Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Alertness, Safety and Productivity

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• Authors:
  • Howard, M
  • Rajaratnam, S
• Publication Date: 2019-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 23p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attention; Drivers; Fatigue (Physiological condition); Heavy vehicles; Instrumented vehicles; Monitoring; Rest periods
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driving hours; Safe systems (road users)
• ATRI Terms: Attention; Driving hours; Heavy vehicle driver; Human fatigue; Instrumented vehicle; Monitoring; Rest period

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01704743
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ATRI
• Created Date: May 20 2019 10:18AM