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When examining the critical issue of light-vehicle and heavy-vehicle interactions, a point of major concern is the findings showing a larger proportion of light-vehicle drivers are at-fault during these incidents. This may be indicative of inadequacies in driver education training programs related to the topic of heavy vehicles and how to share the road safely. Thus; the purpose of this project was threefold: (1) To educate light vehicle drivers about the importance of proper road sharing behavior; (2) To raise awareness about the key areas of concern when sharing the road with trucks; (3) To teach light vehicle drivers some handy tips and rules of thumb to help them practice proper road sharing behavior. The Tips for Sharing the Road with Commercial Motor Vehicles website was designed to cover five key sharing-the-road scenarios using video clips of real-world driving events captured during one of Virginia Tech Transportation Institute’s naturalistic driving studies. The website combines naturalistic driving video clips, simulator screenshots, scenario descriptions, short tips and facts, as well as photographs of actual crashes between light and heavy vehicles to convey the importance of proper road sharing behavior. Ideally, this publicly accessible website will be used as a supplemental driving tips training program.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB70 Standing Committee on Truck and Bus Safety.

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16-3960

English

8p

2016

Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Photos; References

Automatic data collection systems; Automobile drivers; Driver education; Trucks; Websites (Information retrieval)

Education and Training; Highways; Motor Carriers; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-3960

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 12 2016 5:44PM