Fifty Years of Driving Safety Research

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• Personal Author:
  Lee JD
• Description:
  Objective: This brief review covers the 50 years of driving-related research published in Human Factors, its contribution to driving safety, and emerging challenges. Background: Many factors affect driving safety, making it difficult to assess the impact of specific factors such as driver age, cell phone distractions, or collision warnings. Method: The author considers the research themes associated with the approximately 270 articles on driving published in Human Factors in the past 50 years. Results: To a large extent, current and past research has explored similar themes and concepts. Many articles published in the first 25 years focused on issues such as driver impairment, individual differences, and perceptual limits. Articles published in the past 25 years address similar issues but also point toward vehicle technology that can exacerbate or mitigate the negative effect of these issues. Conceptual and computational models have played an important role in this research. Conclusion: Improved crash-worthiness has contributed to substantial improvements in driving safety over the past 50 years, but future improvements will depend on enhancing driver performance and perhaps, more important, improving driver behavior. Developing models to guide this research will become more challenging as new technology enters the vehicle and shifts the focus from driver performance to driver behavior. Application: Over the past 50 years, Human Factors has accumulated a large base of driving-related research that remains relevant for many of today's design and policy concerns. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Automobiles Behavior Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Age Factors Analytical Models Automobile Safety Cell Phones Drivers Emerging Technology Humans Models Motor Vehicles Performance Capability Risk Factors Safety Education Safety Engineering Safety Research Task Performance

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• ISSN:
  0018-7208
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Iowa ; OSHA Region 7
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  50
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20063336
• Citation:
  Hum Factors 2008 Jun; 50(3):521-528
• Contact Point Address:
  John D. Lee, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Iowa, 2130 Seamans Ctr., Iowa City, IA 52242
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2008
• Performing Organization:
  University of Iowa
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Human Factors
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/226415/cdc_226415_DS1.pdf
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