Work-Related Road Safety: An Analysis Based on U.K. Bus Driver Performance

Work-related road safety: an analysis based on U.K. bus driver performance.

The effects of age and experience on accident involvement for bus drivers were investigated, with special emphasis upon the first years of being an operator, using two methods. First, direct calculations between these variables were undertaken. Thereafter, a variant of the method of quasi-induced exposure (a ratio of culpable versus nonculpable accidents in the population) was used and referred...

Road Departure Avoidance System Based on the Driver Decision Estimator

In this paper a robust road departure avoidance system based on a closed-loop driver decision estimator (DDE) is presented. The main idea is that of incorporating the driver intent in the control of the vehicle. The driver decision estimator computes the vehicle look ahead lateral position based on the driver input and uses this position to establish the risk of road departure. To induce a risk...

Perceptions of Work-Related Road Safety: Safety versus Savings

Driver Assistance: Contemporary Road Safety

Despite a trend towards increased road safety, fatal and/or serious accidents induce a significant toll each year. We work towards improved road safety through the development of an intelligent driver assistance system that monitors the driver’s performance and assists with vehicle guidance. This complex task is decomposed into subsystems including lane-keeping, obstacle avoidance, sign detecti...

Organizational Work-Related Road Safety Situational Analysis: More Than Just an Audit Tool

Although safety statistics indicate that road crashes are the most common form of work-related fatalities, many organizations fail to treat company vehicles in the same manner as other physical safety hazards within the workplace. Traditionally, work-related road safety has targeted primarily driver-related issues and not adequately addressed organizational processes, such as the organizations’...