High-Risk Commercial Motor Vehicle Drivers and Differential Crash Risk: Future Directions

A variety of factors influence commercial motor vehicle (CMV) driver risk. Few studies have attempted to integrate all the interacting factors that may contribute to an increased risk of a crash and most studies fail to account for exposure. Most studies use self-reports of prior crashes or retrospective Department of Motor Vehicle records. These approaches have limited utility because they are likely to be inaccurate, crashes are not always reported, and near crashes are not considered. Current knowledge suggests there are certain factors associated with high-risk driving, but a comprehensive model on how these factors interact with each other does not exist. Further, all of these factors have not been included in one study, nor have they been studied under naturalistic driving conditions. The finding of differential crash risk among CMV drivers along many safety-related personal dimensions presents an opportunity for the trucking industry and government safety officials. Suggested research and development opportunities for addressing the problem of high-risk drivers include the following: validating prior research findings indicating differential driver risk; determining how enduring these differences are across time; profiling individual differences within a group of drivers and relating these differences to safety outcomes; assessing the efficacy of various driver selection instruments; verifying that differences in fatigue susceptibility are long-term personal traits, identifying ways to assess the level of fatigue susceptibility, and determining the physiological basis of differential fatigue susceptibility; documenting and disseminating the best driver management practices for use by carrier safety managers; developing onboard safety monitoring (OBSM) devices that can record a variety of safety-related driving behaviors and management protocols for the successful use of OBSM data for reducing at-risk driving behaviors and crash rates; improving driver training programs; and industry pilot testing of behavioral safety management techniques to reduce the risky driving behaviors of high-risk drivers.

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• Authors:
  • Hickman, Jeffrey S
• Conference:
  • Future Truck and Bus Safety Research Opportunities
  • Location: Arlington Virginia, United States
  • Date: 2005-3-23 to 2005-3-24
• Publication Date: 2006

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 16-23
• Monograph Title: Future Truck and Bus Safety Research Opportunities
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Conference Proceedings
  • Issue Number: 38
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 1073-1652

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior modification; Best practices; Bus drivers; Commercial drivers; Crash risk forecasting; Driver training; Fatigue (Physiological condition); High risk drivers; Research; Safety management; Truck drivers
• Uncontrolled Terms: Future research; Onboard monitoring
• Subject Areas: Highways; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01023768
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309094224
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: May 5 2006 9:12AM