Commercial motor vehicle driver fatigue, long-term health, and highway safety : research needs /

There are approximately 4,000 fatalities in crashes involving trucks and buses in the United States each year. Though estimates are wide-ranging, possibly 10 to 20 percent of these crashes might have involved fatigued drivers. The stresses associated with their particular jobs (irregular schedules,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : National Academies Press, [2016]
Colección:Online access: National Academy of Sciences National Academies Press.
Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf.
Temas:
Truck driving > Research > United States > Physiological aspects.
Commercial vehicles > Research > United States > Safety measures.
Truck drivers > Health and hygiene > Research > United States.
Fatigue.
Motor vehicles.
Automobile Driving
Fatigue > prevention & control
Motor Vehicles
Accidents, Traffic > prevention & control
Occupational Diseases > prevention & control
Risk Factors
Fatigue
Camions > Conduite > Recherche > États-Unis > Aspect physiologique.
Véhicules utilitaires > Recherche > États-Unis > Sécurité > Mesures.
Camionneurs > Santé et hygiène > Recherche > États-Unis.
Conduite automobile.
Véhicules automobiles.
motor vehicles.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Transportation.
TRANSPORTATION > Public Transportation.
Motor vehicles
Commercial vehicle operations.
Commercial drivers.
Commercial vehicles.
High risk drivers.
Human factors.
Driver performance.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Summary
  • Introduction
  • The truck and bus industries
  • Consequences of fatigue from insufficient sleep
  • Hours-of-service regulations
  • Current research data and methods: Data sources
  • Research methodology and principles: assessing causality
  • Current research findings: Fatigue, hours of service, and highway safety
  • Fatigue and health and wellness
  • Technological countermeasures for and corporate management of fatigue
  • Research directions:
  • Research directions for fatigue and highway safety
  • Research directions for studying the impact of fatigue on commercial motor vehicle drivers' health and wellness
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Appendix: Biographical sketches of panel members and staff
  • Committee on National Statistics.

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