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http://www.trb.org/Publications/Blurbs/161810.aspx

Technologies to reduce impaired driving may provide one opportunity to reduce offending among youth impaired drivers. Technologies designed to reduce and prevent alcohol-impaired driving have long been used to incapacitate, deter, and control alcohol consumption and drinking and driving among adult offenders. Two important examples of such technologies that are widely used are continuous alcohol monitoring, based on transdermal measures of alcohol consumption, and alcohol ignition interlocks, based on breath alcohol measures. The former involves a bracelet that is attached to offenders and monitors drinking behavior. It was introduced in 2003 and today is in use in more than 43 states in the U.S. The latter is a breath testing device linked to a vehicle’s ignition or other on-board system so as to require a zero or low BAC test before the vehicle can be started or operated. Alcohol interlocks are designed to separate drinking and driving as well as to monitor alcohol consumption. Interlocks have been in use for more than two decades and are applied in almost all jurisdictions in North America to drunk driving offenders as well as to a range of drivers in other jurisdictions around the world. This paper presents a brief discussion regarding ways in which these two important yet distinct technologies are beginning to be applied to youth.

01133870

English

pp 216-223

2009-6

Transportation Research Circular

Young Impaired Drivers: The Nature of the Problem and Possible Solutions

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Alcohol ignition interlock devices; Driver monitoring; Drunk driving; Impaired drivers; Technology; Teenage drivers; Young adults

Continuous alcohol monitoring devices

Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

TRIS, TRB

Jul 17 2009 12:35PM

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