BACKGROUND Young novice drivers have crash rates higher than any other age group. To address this problem, graduated driver licensing (GDL) laws have been implemented in the United States to require an extended learner permit phase, and create night time driving or passenger restrictions for adolescent drivers. GDL allows adolescents to gain experience driving under low-risk conditions with the...

Time spent fishing is the effort metric often studied in fisheries but it may under-represent the effort actually expended by fishers. Entire fishing trips, from the time vessels leave port until they return, may prove more useful for examining trends in fleet dynamics, fisher behavior, and fishing costs. However, such trip information is often difficult to resolve. We identified ~30,000 trips ...

I agree with the analysis in the preliminary evaluation as regards the limitations of LOS. However, I wanted to point out some of the challenges with several of the alternatives on the list. In particular, measures such as "Automobile Trips Generated" generated do not account for the fact that most trips are not "new," at least as these measures are typically calculated by planners and engineer...