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A literature review of driver fatigue among drivers in the general public McKernon, S

By: Publication details: Wellington NZ Transport Agency. Research Report 342, 2009Description: 60 sISBN:
  • 9780478334951
Subject(s): Online resources: Abstract: This report reviews the literature since 2000 on driver fatigue that is relevant to drivers in the general public. During 2007, the Minister of Transport requested that Land Transport New Zealand conduct a review of recent developments in international knowledge about measures to counter driver fatigue, with a focus on identifying which measures are successful, which are unsuccessful, and which could be workable in New Zealand in the future. The National Road Safety Committee (NRSC) also requested a similar review with the aim of profiling best practice suitable for the New Zealand context. A Land Transport NZ and Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) project team identified the 2001 report by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), entitled Driver fatigue and road accidents: A literature review and position paper, as a baseline review. As a result, the core aim of this review was to cover developments since 2000 (the final year covered in the RoSPA review). The project team felt the scope of the review could be narrowed to better serve the immediate needs of Land Transport NZ and ACC, and to better explore recent developments in educational and behavioural change programmes. General-public driver fatigue poses significant challenges in terms of influencing general-public driver attitudes, skills and norms; for example, media campaigns targeting generalpublic drivers were viewed as important measures needing further exploration. As noted in this review, it can be difficult to assess and present evidence regarding measures for the general public, as various disciplines provide evidence using different conceptual frameworks and standards. As a result, this review prioritises general-public driver fatigue over commercial-driver fatigue, and social change programmes over road engineering measures. It also makes every effort to integrate evidence for the success (or otherwise) of different measures from different disciplines.
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This report reviews the literature since 2000 on driver fatigue that is relevant to drivers in the general public. During 2007, the Minister of Transport requested that Land Transport New Zealand conduct a review of recent developments in international knowledge about measures to counter driver fatigue, with a focus on identifying which measures are successful, which are unsuccessful, and which could be workable in New Zealand in the future. The National Road Safety Committee (NRSC) also requested a similar review with the aim of profiling best practice suitable for the New Zealand context. A Land Transport NZ and Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) project team identified the 2001 report by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), entitled Driver fatigue and road accidents: A literature review and position paper, as a baseline review. As a result, the core aim of this review was to cover developments since 2000 (the final year covered in the RoSPA review). The project team felt the scope of the review could be narrowed to better serve the immediate needs of Land Transport NZ and ACC, and to better explore recent developments in educational and behavioural change programmes. General-public driver fatigue poses significant challenges in terms of influencing general-public driver attitudes, skills and norms; for example, media campaigns targeting generalpublic drivers were viewed as important measures needing further exploration. As noted in this review, it can be difficult to assess and present evidence regarding measures for the general public, as various disciplines provide evidence using different conceptual frameworks and standards. As a result, this review prioritises general-public driver fatigue over commercial-driver fatigue, and social change programmes over road engineering measures. It also makes every effort to integrate evidence for the success (or otherwise) of different measures from different disciplines.