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Fatigue Management in Transportation Operations

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Sleepiness is the major contributor to at least 20% of all road crashes. Sleepiness-related crashes are likely to be more severe, more often fatal, and more often involve young drivers, than other types of crash. Safe driving is a complex task, in which drivers require higher-order perceptual and cognitive skills to interact safely with the traffic environment. Hazard perception (HzP) is a critical driving skill. HzP requires scanning of the road environment, fixation on appropriate stimuli, and a ‘holistic’ interpretation of the salience of hazards. HzP latency is the time taken to detect and respond appropriately to a road hazard. Unlike vehicle control skill, hazard perception is reliably related to crash risk (see Horswill & McKenna, 2004 for a review), and a number of states now mandate a hazard perception test as part of licensing for novice drivers. Sleepiness can produce deficits in attention, vigilance and information processing. The impact of sleepiness on hazard perception skill is not known.

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