ISSUE ADDRESSED This retrospective study investigated the health conditions of a cohort of heavy vehicle drivers involved in a crash in Western Australia. METHODS Hospital separation records of heavy vehicle drivers admitted to hospital as a result of a road crash between 1 January 1988 and 31 December 2000 in Western Australia were analysed. Heavy vehicle drivers involved in a crash were fir...

OBJECTIVE To identify the underlying systemic drivers of the development and ongoing expansion of hospitalist programs in Canada. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE and Google Scholar were searched using combinations of the terms hospitalist, hospital medicine, and Canada. STUDY SELECTION All publications that addressed the study question, including review articles, original research, editorials, comment...

Taxi trajectories reflect human mobility over the urban roads’ network. Although taxi drivers cruise the same city streets, there is an observed variation in their daily profit. To reveal the reasons behind this issue, this study introduces a novel approach for investigating and understanding the impact of human mobility patterns (taxi drivers’ behavior) on daily drivers’ profit. Firstly, a K-m...

PURPOSE This study was designed to examine the on-road driving performance of drivers with hemianopia and quadrantanopia compared with age-matched controls. METHODS Participants included persons with hemianopia or quadrantanopia and those with normal visual fields. Visual and cognitive function tests were administered, including confirmation of hemianopia and quadrantanopia through visual fie...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether there is an association between use of substances that contain caffeine and the risk of crash in long distance commercial vehicle drivers. DESIGN Case-control study. SETTING New South Wales (NSW) and Western Australia (WA), Australia. PARTICIPANTS 530 long distance drivers of commercial vehicles who were recently involved in a crash attended by police (cases...

This article moves beyond previous attempts to understand health problems in the lives of professional lorry drivers by placing the study of drivers' health in a wider social and cultural context. A combination of methods including focus groups, interviews and observations were used to collect data from a group of 24 lorry drivers working at a large transport company in the United Kingdom. Empl...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the effect of a nondriving cognitively loading task on the relationship between drivers' endogenous and exogenous control of attention. BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown that cognitive load leads to a withdrawal of attention from the forward scene and a narrowed field of view, which impairs hazard detection. METHOD Posner's cue-target paradigm was modi...

Studies have documented operator drowsiness, sleepiness, or fatigue as causal or contributing factors in aviation, maritime, and trucking accidents. However, estimates of the prevalence of drowsy drivers on the road and of the proportion of motor vehicle crashes that involve drowsy drivers vary widely. This study presents new estimates of the prevalence of drowsy drivers on U.S. roads and of th...

OBJECTIVE Speeding tickets are the most commonly used tool to deter speeders, yet little is known about how speeding citations affect individual drivers' behavior over time. This study examined the effects of being cited for speeding and types of legal consequences on drivers' subsequent speeding citations, which are an indicator of speeding behavior. METHODS A cohort of 3,739,951 Maryland li...

conclusions this study showed that gender, education level, occupation, socioeconomic status, medical care, health condition, lifestyle, family conflict, drug abuse history, and religious attitudes are the major social factors of risky driving on the intercity roads of tehran province. background traffic accidents are the major cause of injuries that endanger the lives of many people annually. ...