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Title: PROBLEM DRIVING MANEUVERS OF ELDERLY DRIVERS
Accession Number: 00965592
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Find a library where document is available Abstract: Older drivers, who are the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population, experience high crash rates. An analysis was performed to evaluate potential problem maneuvers that may lead to higher crash involvement. Left turns against oncoming traffic, gap acceptance for crossing non-limited-access highways, and high-speed lane changes on limited-access highways are identified as such maneuvers. Older and younger driver accident propensities are measured, using Kentucky crash data. The findings of the analysis show that older drivers are more likely to be involved in crashes related with these maneuvers compared with younger drivers; older male drivers are safer than older female drivers in left-turn crashes and gap acceptance-related crashes, and having a passenger beside the older drivers makes for a safer driving environment. Potential countermeasures aiming to reduce the accident rates of older drivers are discussed.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1843, Human Performance, Simulation, User Information Systems, and Older Person Safety and Mobility.
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Chandraratna, SStamatiadis, NPagination: p. 89-95
Publication Date: 2003
Serial: ISBN: 0309085772
Features: Figures
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TRT Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Highways; Passenger Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Nov 19 2003 12:00AM
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