Educating Young Drivers in the Pacific Northwest on Driver Distraction
This paper summarizes the outcome of an outreach project that examined the perception of distracted driving among high school and university students in the Pacific Northwest. The primary objective of the project was to identify secondary tasks that young drivers consider distracting and determine their self-reported engagement in those tasks while driving. An interactive demonstration was developed and administered to 2,378 drivers, from high schools and universities from four states Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. The drivers responded to a pre- and post-survey administered immediately before and either immediately after or two weeks after the demonstration. The purpose of the survey was to measure the degree to which the interactive demonstration improved young drivers’ perspectives regarding the hazards of distracted driving. Results were statistically significant for all type of distractions (manual, visual, and cognitive) at the combined high school and university student data. Indicating that as a result of the interactive demonstration, younger drivers were more likely to correctly identify different types of distracted driving.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB30 Standing Committee on Operator Education and Regulation.
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Corporate Authors:
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Authors:
- Jashami, Hisham
- Hurwitz, David S
- Abdel-Rahim, Ahmed
- Bham, Ghulam H
- Boyle, Linda Ng
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
- Date: 2017
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 19p
- Monograph Title: TRB 96th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Distraction; Driver education; Highway safety; Teenage drivers; Young adults
- Geographic Terms: Alaska; Idaho; Oregon; Pacific Northwest; Washington (State)
- Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01623330
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 17-02233
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Jan 24 2017 3:31PM