Expenditure for road safety
An estimate for 2007. W. Wijnen & N.E. Stroeker (IOO). R-2009-17.
Expenditure for the prevention of traffic crashes and injury give an indication of the efforts that are made to improve road safety. This study has investigated how much money is annually spent on road safety, which parties make the expenditure, and what means or prevention methods the money is spent on. This report presents the estimation method that was used as well as an estimation for the year 2007.
VVR-GIS 3.0
Description and justification of the calculation kernel. M.C.B. Reurings, W. Wijnen & M.A. Vis. R-2009-10.
This report discusses the calculation kernel of VVR-GIS 3.0, a software instrument to assist road authorities and policymakers in drawing up and substantiating traffic and transport plans. VVR-GIS 3.0 makes it possible to calculate the effects of different regional sets of road safety measures and to compare them among each other. Apart from the calculation kernel itself (a separate software module), VVR-GIS 3.0 also consists of the user interface (the maps, buttons and menues) and two databases containing data that is requires for the use of VVR-GIS 3.) and for the calculations
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New acquisitions
Every day, publications are added to the library collection, both those ordered by us and those sent to us. Every month, an overview of these is placed on our website, to be consulted. You will find the overview here.
Driver reaction times to familiar but unexpected events
G. Coley et al. Crowthorne, Berkshire, Transport Research Laboratory TRL, 2010, 75 p., 17 ref.; Published Project Report ; PPR 313 - ISSN 0968-4093 / ISBN 978-1-84608-845-2
The Driver Reaction Times to Familiar but Unexpected Events study was undertaken as part of the TRL re-investment program to promote internal research. The study was designed to take advantage of existing data collected during previous trials in the CARSIM, together with bespoke studies designed to be integrated into new trials. In collision investigation, it is the perception and response of a driver to a familiar, but unexpected event (such as the sudden movement of a pedestrian crossing from behind a parked vehicle) that is of considerable importance when reconstructing an incident for criminal or civil proceedings.
Hazards faced by young designated drivers : in-car risks of driving drunken passengers
P.J. Rothe & L.J. Carroll. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol. 6 (2009), No. 6 (June), p. 1760-1777, 22 ref.
This qualitative study explored the risk in the practice of young designated drivers transporting drunken peers. Young drivers 18-29 years old in Alberta, Canada participated in 12 focus groups (N = 146). Interviews were semi-structured. A key finding is that when highly intoxicated youth are driven by a designated driver who is a peer, they are likely to behave in ways that are unsafe. Unsafe actions of drunken passengers in the vehicle include physical "rough-housing" with the driver, creating stress for the driver that leads to high risk driving situations and disrupting safe driving through nausea and in-car vomiting.
Older drivers and failure to stop at red lights
S.K. West et al. Journals of Gerontology Series A - Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 2009, October 12 [Epub ahead of print], 5 p., 18 ref.
Despite sensational news reports, few studies have quantified the rates of poor driving performance among older drivers and the predictors of poor performance. The authors determined the rate of running red traffic lights among older drivers and the relationship of failure to stop to measures of vision and cognition. Multiple measures of vision and cognition were collected at the baseline examination of a population of 1,425 drivers aged 67-87 years.
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