Commercial motor vehicle driver fatigue, long-term health, and highway safety : research needs /
There are approximately 4,000 fatalities in crashes involving trucks and buses in the United States each year. Though estimates are wide-ranging, possibly 10 to 20 percent of these crashes might have involved fatigued drivers. The stresses associated with their particular jobs (irregular schedules,...
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Washington, DC :
National Academies Press,
2016
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Table of Contents:
- Summary
- Introduction
- The truck and bus industries
- Consequences of fatigue from insufficient sleep
- Hours-of-service regulations
- Current research data and methods: Data sources
- Research methodology and principles: assessing causality
- Current research findings: Fatigue, hours of service, and highway safety
- Fatigue and health and wellness
- Technological countermeasures for and corporate management of fatigue
- Research directions:
- Research directions for fatigue and highway safety
- Research directions for studying the impact of fatigue on commercial motor vehicle drivers' health and wellness
- Glossary
- References
- Appendix: Biographical sketches of panel members and staff
- Committee on National Statistics.
