GRADUATED LICENSING: A BLUEPRINT FOR NORTH AMERICA

Many districts throughout North America are considering graduated licensing, an increasingly popular approach to reducing new drivers' risk of collisions. Such an approach is needed because of the high crash rates among new drivers, especially young ones. In the U.S., for example, 16-year-olds have almost 10 times the crash risk of drivers ages 30-59 and almost 3 times the risk of older teenagers. Graduated licensing offers a more sensible and less risky way for new drivers to begin to drive. This has been found to reduce collisions and injuries in New Zealand and Ontario, Canada, but most North American systems are too new for formal evaluation. Six Canadian provinces and 24 U.S. states have enacted some form of graduated licensing. To assist other jurisdictions where graduated licensing is being contemplated, this document provides recommendations for the structure and characteristics of such systems.

• Corporate Authors:

  Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

  1005 North Glebe Road
  Arlington, VA  United States  22201

  Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF)

  Ottowa, Ontario  Canada 
• Publication Date: 1999-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 11 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash risk forecasting; Driver licensing; Graduated licensing; Teenage drivers
• Uncontrolled Terms: New drivers
• Geographic Terms: Canada; New Zealand; Ontario (Province); United States
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00762270
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 12 1999 12:00AM