OBJECTIVE The objective of this article is to explore relationship between older drivers and their passengers (co-pilots) and potential implications of in-vehicle navigation technology on their driving safety. METHODS Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 44 healthy, community-dwelling older adults (aged 60-83) or 22 married couples. Males identified themselves as drivers and females...

This paper explains trajectory⁃based data forwarding schemes for multihop data delivery in vehicular networks where the trajectory is the GPS navigation path for driving in a road network. Nowadays, GPS⁃based navigation is popular with drivers either for efficient driv⁃ ing in unfamiliar road networks or for a better route, even in familiar road networks with heavy traffic. In this paper, we de...

Background: Vibration as one of the harmful physical factors is relatively present in a wide range of jobs. Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are among the most prevailing complaints of workers encountering occupational factors for example vibration. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate vibration and its association with the MSDs in upper limbs of heavy mine vehicles drivers. Ma...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to illustrate how a consideration of glance sequences to in-vehicle tasks and their associated distributions can be informative. BACKGROUND The rapid growth in the number of nomadic technologies and in-vehicle devices has the potential to create complex, visually intensive tasks for drivers that may incur long in-vehicle glances. Such glances place drivers ...

Traffic crash risk assessments should incorporate appropriate exposure data. However, existing US nationwide crash data sets, the NASS General Estimates System (GES) and the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), do not contain information on driver or vehicle exposure. In order to obtain appropriate exposure data, this work estimates vehicle miles driven (VMD) by different drivers using th...

BACKGROUND Several studies indicate that truck drivers have an increased risk of lung cancer, but few studies have examined lung cancer risk in heavy equipment operators. Workers in both occupations are exposed to diesel exhaust. AIMS To examine the incidence and mortality from lung cancer among truck drivers and among drivers of heavy vehicles. METHODS A computerised register of Swedish co...

OBJECTIVE We explored drivers' mobile device use and its associated risk of a safety-critical event (SCE) in specific driving contexts. Our premise was that the SCE risk associated with mobile device use increases when the driving task becomes demanding. METHODS Data from naturalistic driving studies involving commercial motor vehicle drivers and light vehicle drivers were partitioned into su...

conclusions despite relatively high prevalence of smoking than drug use in zahedan drivers, there are few reports of these behaviors. laboratory tests cannot suitably measure substance use due to their interference with other substances. considering adverse effects of smoking on health and driving, it is necessary to train drivers to reduce or stop smoking during driving. results generally, fou...