Publication Details

A guide for reducing crashes involving drowsy and distracted drivers

Type: Paper

Author(s): Stutts, Jane C.; Knipling, Ronald R.; Pfefer, Ronald; Neuman, Timothy R.; Slack, Kevin L.; Hardy, Kelly K.

Collection title: Guidance for Implementation of the AASHTO Strategic Highway Safety Plan

Pages: 106

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Url: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/23425/a-guide-for-reducing-collisions-involving-pedestrians

Publication Date: 2005

Issn: 0077-5614

Isbn: 0309087600

Number: NCHRP Report 500: Volume 14

Address: Washington, DC

Abstract: The goal of the AASHTO Strategic Highway Safety Plan is to reduce annual highway fatalities to 1.0 fatality per 100 million vehicle miles of travel. This goal can beachieved through the widespread application of low-cost, proven countermeasures thatreduce the number of crashes on the nation’s highways. This fourteenth volume ofNCHRP Report 500: Guidance for Implementation of the AASHTO Strategic HighwaySafety Plan provides strategies that can be employed to reduce the number of crashesinvolving drowsy and distracted drivers. The report will be of particular interest tosafety practitioners with responsibility for implementing programs to reduce injuriesand fatalities on the highway system.