Publication Details

Aging and highway safety: The elderly in a mobile society

Type: conferencePapers

Author(s): Planek, Thomas W.; Mann, William A.; Wiener, Earl L.

Pages: 1-113

Publisher: UNC Highway Safety Research Center

Url: https://trid.trb.org/view/139205

Publication Date: Sept-1972

Volume: 7

Address: Chapel Hill, NC

Abstract: This symposium focuses on the special roles of the elderly driver and pedestrian in the highly mobile society of the late twentieth century. It is suggested that chronological age is only a gross, arbitrary, and at times, quite erroneous indicator of capacity. Consequently, drivers should be assessed individually and not as a group. A multi-faceted approach to educating the elderly driver will arm him with information he needs regarding rules of the road and safe driving practices and the knowledge of how he can adapt to his physical deficiencies. The solution to the problem of safety for pedestrians of all ages lies in city planning and traffic engineering whereby the pedestrian and the traffic could be separated in space rather than just in time. A bibliography is included on the ""Literature of Aging Pedestrians and Drivers, 1962-1972.""

Conference name: The North Carolina Symposium on Highway Safety