Is Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks Effective in Changing Driver Behavior? Evidence from North Carolina
This paper presents work conducted as part of an evaluation of the Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks (TACT) III program of the North Carolina Highway Patrol. The goal of the TACT program is to reduce the contribution of aggressive driving behaviors to crashes involving commercial motor vehicles. In the present study, camera-based detection methods were used to identify the incidence of following too closely within the context of prevailing commercial motor vehicle and passenger vehicle volumes, speeds, and lane position both before and during TACT program enforcement operations. The data suggest that enforcement under the TACT program may have differential effects on the following distances of cars and trucks. An increase in the following distances of commercial motor vehicles was observed in the rightmost lane of an Interstate facility. A slight decrease in the speeds of commercial motor vehicles was also observed during the enforcement period, but no significant changes in speeds or vehicle following times were observed for passenger vehicles. The results indicate that the methodology developed is sensitive and is able to detect changes in driver behavior. It may thus become a potential alternative strategy for evaluation of the TACT program. The use of roadside instrumentation further enables future applications for automated driver feedback, in which following too closely and speed violations may be detected automatically and the information relayed to the driver in an infrastructure-to-vehicle context like that for dynamic speed signs. Automated methods developed as part of this research could also be used for automated enforcement in future applications.
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Authors:
- Cunningham, Christopher M
- Schroeder, Bastian J
- Vaughan, Christopher
- Hughes, Ronald G
- Publication Date: 2011
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Figures; Photos; References;
- Pagination: pp 100-108
- Monograph Title: Highway and Traffic Safety: Vehicles, Behavior, and Roundabouts
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
- Issue Number: 2265
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0361-1981
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Aggression; Automated enforcement; Automobile drivers; Behavior modification; Commercial vehicles; Following distance; High risk drivers; Speeding; Traffic law enforcement; Truck drivers; Trucks; Vehicle to infrastructure communications
- Identifier Terms: Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks
- Geographic Terms: North Carolina
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01333505
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 9780309223027
- Report/Paper Numbers: 11-3841
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Mar 21 2011 2:14PM