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Impact of local/short haul operations on driver fatigue. Task 2 report: Development of experimental protocols. Contract No (1998)
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@MISC{Hanowski98impactof,
author = {Richard Joseph Hanowski and Woodrow Barfield and Brian M. Kleiner and Ronald R. Knipling and Walter W. Wierwille and Richard Joseph Hanowski and Committee Chairman and Thomas A. Dingus},
title = {Impact of local/short haul operations on driver fatigue. Task 2 report: Development of experimental protocols. Contract No},
year = {1998}
}
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Abstract
Massie, Blower, and Campbell (1997) indicate that trucks that operate less than 50 miles from the vehicle's home base comprise 58 % of the trucking industry. However, despite being the largest segment, research involving local/short haul (L/SH) operations has been scant. In fact, little is known about the general safety issues in L/SH operations. As a precursor to the present research, Hanowski, Wierwille, Gellatly, Early, and Dingus (1998) conducted a series of focus groups in which L/SH drivers provided their perspective on safety issues, including fatigue, in their industry. As a follow-up to the Hanowski et al. work, the effort presented here consisted of an on-road field study where L/SH trucks were instrumented with data collection equipment. Two L/SH trucking companies and 42 L/SH drivers participated in this research. To the author's knowledge, this is the first in-situ data collection effort of its kind with L/SH drivers. The analyses focused on determining if fatigue is an issue in L/SH operations. Of primary interest were critical incidents (near-crashes) where drivers were judged to be at fault. The results of the analyses indicated that fatigue was present immediately prior to driver
Keyphrases
sh driver local short haul operation driver fatigue experimental protocol sh operation primary interest sh trucking company safety issue on-road field study home base comprise data collection equipment trucking industry focus group sh truck general safety issue present research critical incident local short haul first in-situ data collection effort
