EVALUATION OF THE REFERRAL DRIVING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PROGRAM -- FOLLOW-UP REPORT
This study evaluated the safety impact of the new Referral Driving Performance Evaluation (RDPE) drive test program. The 3-year prior accident and citation rates for drivers taking the RDPE drive tests were compared to the general driving population and to drivers who passed the Special Drive Test (SDT) in an earlier DMV study. The results indicated that in every age and gender category except one, drivers in the RDPE program had much higher prior accident and citation rates than did drivers in general. The prior accident rates for drivers who passed the RDPE tests were not significantly different from those for drivers who failed the tests. Hence, the validity of using RDPE test results as indicators of accident risk was not conclusively supported by the data. Contrary to expectation, drivers who passed the RDPE tests also had accident rates similar to those for drivers who passed the SDT, which indicated that the RDPE tests were no better than the SDT at distinguishing between higher- and lower-risk drivers. However, because the RDPE tests fail a much higher percentage of referral drivers than does the SDT, the tests do result in accident savings.
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Corporate Authors:
California Department of Motor Vehicles
Research and Development Branch
P.O. Box 932382
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Authors:
- Masten, S V
- Publication Date: 1998-12
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Appendices; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 19 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Crash rates; Crash risk forecasting; Driver rehabilitation; Driving; High risk drivers; Low risk drivers; Traffic safety
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00760619
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: NTL, TRIS, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Mar 8 1999 12:00AM