Young driver enforcement within graduated driver licensing systems: a scoping review

This paper examines simulators to deliver driver education programs for two very different populations (a) those who have specific impairments or intellectual disabilities and (b) those who may suffer disadvantage associated with their ethnicity. To do this we addressed two research questions (a) What role, if any, can simulation play as an education and/or training intervention for individuals disadvantaged because of individually-orientated concerns such as intellectual impairment or ADHD? (b) What role, if any, can simulation play as an education and/or training intervention for those who are disadvantaged because of their indigenous ethnicity? Technological developments have enabled the incorporation of driving simulators into driver education programs. A review of major databases using keywords identified 2,420 records. After duplicates were removed and screening occurred, thirteen studies were included in the review. The disadvantaged populations for the driver education initiatives that incorporated a simulator were very specific (e.g. intellectual disabilities) with no interventions for those disadvantaged because of ethnicity. A second search identified six papers that discussed interventions for indigenous populations. None of these interventions had a simulator component. The review highlights the need for high quality empirical research in the area of simulators, driver education and disadvantaged groups in order to inform policy development within this area. While there are some preliminary results indicating potential benefits, there is limited research evidence for an initiative of this type making it difficult to develop evidence based policy and practice. Therefore, when these types of initiatives are introduced, they need to be evaluated.

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Simulators, driver education and disadvantaged groups: A scoping review

Bates

Larue

Filtness

et al. 2019

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“…Evaluation studies suggest that the Queensland GDL, which was improved in 2007 [27], was effective at reducing young driver crashes, fatalities, and serious injuries [28]. Research indicates that parental engagement in GDL programs, especially parental regulation of young people's driving, rather than that of police or other regulatory agencies, is important for the success of GDL programs [29,30].…”

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What, Who, and When? The Perceptions That Young Drivers and Parents Have of Driving Simulators for Use in Driver Education

Rodwell

Larue

Bates

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Safety

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Driver education providers may utilise technologies such as driving simulators to augment their existing courses. Understanding the perceptions that young drivers and parents have of simulators may help to make simulator-based driver education more accepted and more likely to be effective. Young drivers and parents completed an online questionnaire that included a “simulator invention” visualisation task. Items based on the Goals for Driver Education framework investigated perceptions of the most appropriate skill type, while others examined the most suitable target group for simulator training, and timing in relation to completing a formal driver education course for simulator training to occur. Both groups perceived that simulators were most appropriate for training a combination of physical, traffic, psychological, and social driving skills with learner drivers during attendance at a novice driver education program. Young drivers and parents had similar perceptions regarding the amount that each skill type should be trained using a simulator. Understanding the perceptions of young drivers and parents, and especially those who are somewhat naïve to the use of driving simulators, may aid in the introduction and administration of simulator training and may increase the effectiveness of driver education as a crash countermeasure.

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“…Over the long term, private vehicle ownership is positively correlated with road traffic accidents, and a short-term increase in private vehicle ownership inevitably leads to a rise in fatalities. To avoid the rise in fatalities caused by increased private vehicle ownership, approaches like increasing the difficulty in obtaining drivers' licenses or setting up classified drivers' licenses can be implemented in order to increase drivers' proficiency and avoid high accident rates caused by novice drivers [49]. Additionally, studies have shown that risky driving behaviors such as the frequent use of mobile phones also increase the fatality rate of non-professional drivers [50].…”

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The Effects of Macroeconomic Factors on Road Traffic Safety: A Study Based on the ARDL-ECM Model

Liu

Zhou

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Sustainability

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This paper attempts to examine whether socioeconomic volatility produces differentiated effects on road traffic accident indicators. Adopting the Autoregressive distributed lag error-correction model (ARDL-ECM), this paper explores the long-term equilibrium and short-term interactions between five common economic indicators, namely, average salaries (AS), employment (EM), unemployment (UE), total mileage of highway (TMH), and private vehicle ownership (PVO), as well as road traffic-related indicators including the number of road traffic accidents (RTA), injuries (IN), fatalities (FA), and direct economic losses (DEL), using data of road traffic accidents spanning from 1999 to 2018 in China. The study found that all economic indicators except average salaries showed a long-term equilibrium with road traffic accident indicators. The Granger causality test showed that, over the short term, an increase in employment could lead to an increase in injuries, and an increase in private vehicle ownership could cause a rise in fatalities. This study demonstrates that the volatility in economic indicators indeed produces differentiated effects on road traffic accident indicators, providing a theoretical basis for improving road safety performance and formulating relevant policies.

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Young driver enforcement within graduated driver licensing systems: a scoping review

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Simulators, driver education and disadvantaged groups: A scoping review

Simulators, driver education and disadvantaged groups: A scoping review

What, Who, and When? The Perceptions That Young Drivers and Parents Have of Driving Simulators for Use in Driver Education

The Effects of Macroeconomic Factors on Road Traffic Safety: A Study Based on the ARDL-ECM Model

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