As part of their youth-alcohol program, the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs requested a special study to focus on the development of Youth-DUI countermeasures. By way of definition, the word alcohol will be used in a generic way to include DUI caused by both alcohol and/or drugs. Alcohol is, by far, the drug of choice throughout the population, but particularly with those w...

D espite decades of research indicating driver education does not reduce crash involvement among beginning drivers, it still has tremendous popular appeal as a means to improve driver safety. Formal driver education programs enjoy widespread public acceptance around the world as the preferred way to prepare beginners for licensure. For example, a survey in the United States found that 86% consi...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of criminalizing some traffic behaviours, after the reform of the Spanish penal code in 2007, on the number of drivers involved in injury collisions and of people injured in traffic collisions in Spain. METHODS This study followed an interrupted times-series design in which the number of drivers involved in injury collisions and of people injured in traffic c...

The over representation of novice drivers in crashes is alarming. Research indicates that one in five drivers’ crashes within their first year of driving. Driver training is one of the interventions aimed at decreasing the number of crashes that involve young drivers. Currently, there is a need to develop comprehensive driver evaluation system that benefits from the advances in Driver Assistanc...

OBJECTIVES While numerous cell phone use while driving laws have been passed among states, little information exists regarding who gets cited for these traffic infractions and how much these laws are enforced at the state-level within the USA. DESIGN Cross-sectional, descriptive study. SETTING 14 states and the District of Columbia. PARTICIPANTS Those receiving cell phone use while drivin...

This paper highlights lessons from each of the Expert Panel papers in the present supplement that provide guidance for future research and initiatives. Although some shortfalls still remain in our understanding, it is argued that much has been learned and we are ready for more translation, implementation, and evaluation of multilevel interventions to help reduce young driver road trauma. Non-us...

Skitching is the act of hitching a ride on a vehicle while riding/using a non-motorized wheeled device (e.g., skateboard or bicycle). To date there has been little discussion of skitching beyond media reports on the serious and often fatal ramification of this activity. To rectify this and improve our understanding of skitching including: who participates; circumstances and motivation; and poss...

Communication and information technology are developing very rapidly at present. At the same time, the number of older drivers is increasing. When designing systems for elderly drivers, it has been shown that: (1) simplifying a task reduces performance differences between old and young; and (2) the optimization of onboard systems (better legibility and intelligibility of the information, simpli...

Communication and information technology are developing very rapidly at present. At the same time, the number of older drivers is increasing. When designing systems for elderly drivers, it has been shown that: (1) simplifying a task reduces performance differences between old and young; and (2) the optimization of onboard systems (better legibility and intelligibility of the information, simpli...

Modeling and predicting age differences in driver mental workload and performance may help the invehicle system design to reduce or prevent information overloading on older drivers. However, few computational models exist that account for age differences in mental workload. We propose a new computational modeling approach to model workload and performance—a queuing network approach based on que...