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https://doi.org/10.3141/1779-25

http://scholar.google.com...rggi&publication_year=2001

Although much progress has been made in reducing alcohol-related crash fatalities involving motor vehicles, the same success has not been demonstrated with motorcycles. Because the problem associated with drinking and riding is significant in Florida, the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) conducted a comprehensive analysis of motorcycle-alcohol crashes from 1993 to 1997 to understand how and why these crashes occur. CUTR also surveyed states about alcohol programs that target motorcyclists to gather information on potential countermeasures to reduce motorcycle-alcohol injuries and deaths in Florida. The study examined human-related and physical aspects of alcohol-related motorcycle crashes over the 5-year period to help establish an identity for this crash type. Examined human-related crash aspects included age and gender, alcohol use, licensing status, and helmet usage. Physical crash aspects examined included temporal patterns--time of day, day of week, and monthly trends--and contributing factors--first harmful event, road, environmental, and human factors--that cause bodily injuries or property damage. Major study recommendations include increasing efforts to get more motorcyclists properly licensed, greater exposure of messages to motorcyclists about the dangers of drinking and riding, and focused statewide public education and information campaigns. The study concludes with five major categories of countermeasures and recommendations to address the motorcycle-alcohol problem, including public information and education campaigns, promotional activities, enforcement efforts, community-based interventions, and data-collection needs.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1779, Traffic Safety 2001: Americans with Disabilities Act; Driver and Vehicle Modeling; Situation Awareness; Licensing; Driver Behavior; Enforcement; Trucks; and Motorcycles.

English

p. 189-196

2001

Transportation Research Record

0309072379

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Age; Alcohol use; Community action programs; Countermeasures; Data collection; Driver licensing; Drunk driving; Environment; Gender; Highway design; Human factors; Motorcycle crashes; Motorcycle helmets; Promotion; Recommendations; Safety campaigns; Time of crashes; Traffic law enforcement; Traffic safety education

Contributing factors; Interventions

Florida

Education and Training; Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I81: Accident Statistics; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

TRIS, TRB

Feb 13 2002 12:00AM

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• COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES USED IN THE DRIVER PERFORMANCE MODEL OF THE INTERACTIVE HIGHWAY SAFETY DESIGN MODEL
• CRASH RATES AND TRAFFIC MANEUVERS OF YOUNGER DRIVERS
• CRASHES INVOLVING LONG COMBINATION VEHICLES: DATA QUALITY PROBLEMS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT
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• DRIVER KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEFS ABOUT ANTILOCK BRAKE SYSTEMS: HAVE PRECONDITIONS FOR BEHAVIORAL ADAPTATION BEEN MET?
• DRIVING CESSATION AMONG OLDER PEOPLE: WHEN DOES IT HAPPEN AND WHAT IMPACT DOES IT HAVE?
• EFFECTIVENESS OF TRUCK ROLLOVER WARNING SYSTEMS
• FIELD STUDY OF DRIVER'S CURVE-DETECTION PERFORMANCE IN DAYTIME AND NIGHTTIME
• FINDING FAULT IN MOTORCYCLE CRASHES IN HAWAII: ENVIRONMENTAL, TEMPORAL, SPATIAL, AND HUMAN FACTORS
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• MODEL FOR SITUATION AWARENESS AND DRIVING: APPLICATION TO ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH FOR INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
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• TOWARD AN INTEGRATED MODEL OF DRIVER BEHAVIOR IN COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE
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