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Title:

On-Road Assessment of Retention Effects on Hazard Anticipation Training for Novice Drivers

Accession Number:

01628212

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

The failure to anticipate latent hazards (hazards that have not materialized) is a major cause for crashes among teen drivers, due both to their lack of experience and to their distraction while driving. Several training programs that have been developed to improve drivers’ anticipation skills have proven effective immediately after training, both on driving simulators and on the open road. The current study reports on an on-road longitudinal evaluation of the longer-term effectiveness of an iPad-based training program, the Engaged Driver Training System (EDTS), at improving novice drivers’ latent hazard anticipation skills, initially a week after training (EDTS or placebo) and again seven months after training. Seven months after training, the placebo group’s hazard anticipation performance was found to have improved to that observed from the EDTS-trained teens a week after training. This suggests that the EDTS program has immediate benefits to novice drivers in that it can accelerate their learning of hazard anticipation skills, skills that typically take at least six months of exposure to regular driving to develop. Overall, the EDTS-trained teens anticipated a greater proportion of hazards compared to the placebo group in the near term and far-term, though the far term differences were modest and not statistically significant. The study also examined the impact of driving exposure (miles driven) in the period following training on teen drivers’ hazard anticipation skills and found only a mild, direct correlation between driving exposure and growth in hazard anticipation skills within both the EDTS and placebo groups.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB30 Standing Committee on Operator Education and Regulation.

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-06712

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Zafian, Tracy M
Agrawal, Ravi
Samuel, Siby

Pagination:

13p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Photos; References (25) ; Tables

Subject Areas:

Highways; Safety and Human Factors

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-06712

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 12:45PM