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Case Study on the Impact of Treating Sleep Apnea in Commercial Motor Vehicle Drivers: Sleep Apnea Programs from Two Leading U.S. Carriers and Focus Group Findings
(Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, 2012-09-28)
Approximately one in four commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers in the U.S. are estimated to possess mild or higher levels of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), the most common sleep-breathing disorder that is associated with ...
Development of Human Factors Guidelines for Advanced Traveler Information Systems and Commercial Vehicle Operations: Display Channels
(United States. Federal Highway Administration, 1999-12)
Three experiments were conducted in a driving simulator to evaluate effects of in-vehicle message modality and message format on comprehension and memory for younger and older drivers. Visual icons and text messages were ...
Assessment of a Drowsy Driver Warning System for Heavy Vehicle Drivers: Final Report
(United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2008)
Drowsiness has a globally negative impact on performance, slowing reaction time, decreasing situational awareness, and impairing judgment. A field operational test of an early prototype Drowsy Driver Warning System was ...
Data and methods for studying commercial motor vehicle driver fatigue, highway safety and long-term driver health
(2019-05)
This article summarizes the recommendations on data and methodology issues for studying commercial motor vehicle driver fatigue of a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study. A framework is provided ...
Commercial Motor Vehicle Crash Risk by Time of Day
(National Surface Transportation Safety Center for Excellence, 2020-11-16)
Despite a plethora of research examining commercial motor vehicle (CMV) crash risk as a function of time of day, there are few studies that have included objective measures of exposure. The purpose of this study was to use ...
Development of a Performance Specification for Camera/Video Imaging Systems on Heavy Vehicles
(United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2008-07)
This document provides revised final performance specifications for Camera/Video Imaging Systems (C/VISs) used in heavy vehicles. The specifications are based on a combination of analyses including driver needs and human ...
Towards developing a US-EU common distracted driving taxonomy : updating a naturalistic driving data coding approach
(Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, 2011-12-07)
Naturalistic video data reduction is a process of identifying information from video and putting it into a format that can be analyzed. Developing a sufficiently detailed event coding scheme is critical to this process. ...
Fatigue analyses: from 16 months of naturalistic commercial motor vehicle driving data
(Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, 2008-05-31)
Under the sponsorship of the National Surface Transportation Safety Center for Excellence, an existing naturalistic data set from the Drowsy Driver Warning System Field Operational Test (DDWS FOT) was expanded and analyzed ...
Common Data Elements between the Large Truck Crash Causation Study Investigations and Commercially Available Onboard Monitoring Systems
(2015-01-28)
At the heart of traffic safety is the identification of factors that lead to crashes. With this knowledge, interventions can be developed to mitigate or prevent these factors from occurring in the future. Post hoc ...
Evaluating the Potential Safety Benefits of Electronic Hours-of-service Recorders Final Report
(United States. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Office of Analysis, Research, and Technology, 2014-04)
The purpose of the current study was to assess the benefits of installed electronic hours-of-service recorders (EHSRs) on safety and hours-of-service (HOS) violations related to Class 7 and 8 trucks as they operated during ...