BACKGROUND There are concerns over safety of older drivers due to increased crash involvement and vulnerability to injury. However, loss of driving privileges can dramatically reduce independence and quality of life for older members of the community. The aim of this trial is to examine the effectiveness of a safe transport program for drivers aged 75 years and older at reducing driving exposur...

Distracted driving is one of the most significant human factor issues in transport safety. Mobile phone interactions while driving may involve a multitude of cognitive and physical resources that result in inferior driving performance and reduced safety margins. The current study investigates characteristics of usage, risk factors, compensatory strategies in use and characteristics of high-freq...

Bali Province in Indonesia is one of the most attractive tourist destinations world. The number tourists visiting this province keeps increasing year by parallel with increase population local citizens. Such a phenomenon will certainly travel demand and put pressure on current transport infrastructure. Hence, infrastructure development essential to support demand. This study explores possibilit...

This driver behavior assessment model discusses the expertise of public transport drivers based on national Work Qualification with graduate competency standards (SKL). Graduate have parameters, namely competence, elements and graduation indicators. From these three unit is abbreviated as UK, element EK, indicator IK. Assessment first upon attitudes values, second ability in field work, third i...

The relative risks of malignant lymphomas among road transport workers were investigated using the National Cancer Registry in England and Wales. Drivers of buses and coaches (OCC unit 120) had increased risks for both Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas and the drivers of other road passenger vehicles (OCC unit 121) for Hodgkin's lymphomas only. Although the increased risks did not show stat...

It is expected that freight transport in the European Union will grow significantly and road transport will account for a major part of this growth. By 2020 almost 30% of CO2 emissions in the European Union will be caused by transportation. It is obvious that our present patterns of transport growth are unsustainable. One way toward more sustainable transport is to explicitly take greenhouse ga...