NASEM STUDY: Eliminating Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities
To combat the deadliest, costliest danger on U.S. roads—alcohol-impaired driving—a study committee of the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) identified evidence-based interventions to reduce fatalities caused by alcohol-impaired driving in the United States. The committee embraced Vision Zero, a philosophy in which no alcohol-impaired driving deaths are acceptable and in which each alcohol-impaired driving crash represents a failure of the system, from excessive alcohol service to poor road design to lack of effective policies and enforcement. This article highlights interventions examined in the committee's consensus study, "Getting to Zero Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities". Topics include: Blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) laws, sobriety checkpoints, ignition interlock devices, primary seat belt laws, and Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety (DADSS) vehicle-integrated technology. In addition, forms of transportation such as designated drivers, ridesharing, safe ride programs and public transit are also discussed.
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Authors:
- Geller, Amy
- Negussie, Yamrot
- Publication Date: 2018-11
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 3-10
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Serial:
- TR News
- Issue Number: 318
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0738-6826
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Alcohol ignition interlock devices; Blood alcohol levels; Countermeasures; Drunk driving; Fatalities; Policy, legislation and regulation; Seat belt use; Sobriety checkpoints
- Identifier Terms: Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety; National Academies; Vision Zero
- Geographic Terms: United States
- Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Policy; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01687859
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Dec 7 2018 1:46PM