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Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Study of Methods for Increasing Safety Belt Use
Author: Study of Methods for Increasing Safety Belt Use; Prepared by the Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences. Comments on the Study by the U.S. Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Author: Study of Methods for Increasing Safety Belt Use
Author: Steering Committee for the Study of Methods to Increase Use of Safety BeltsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Study of Methods for Increasing Safety Belt Use
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Steering Committee for the Study of Methods to Increase Use of Safety BeltsPublisher:
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Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Buckling Up
Author: Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 0309085934
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Increasing seat belt use is one of the most effective and least costly ways of reducing the lives lost and injuries incurred on the nation's highways each year, yet about one in four drivers and front-seat passengers continues to ride unbuckled. The Transportation Research Board, in response to a congressional request for a study to examine the potential of in-vehicle technologies to increase belt use, formed a panel of 12 experts having expertise in the areas of automotive engineering, design, and regulation; traffic safety and injury prevention; human factors; survey research methods; economics; and technology education and consumer interest. This panel, named the Committee for the Safety Belt Technology Study, examined the potential benefits of technologies designed to increase belt use, determined how drivers view the acceptability of the technologies, and considered whether legislative or regulatory actions are necessary to enable their installation on passenger vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the study sponsor, funded and conducted interviews and focus groups of samples of different belt user groups to learn more about the potential effectiveness and acceptability of technologies ranging from seat belt reminder systems to more aggressive interlock systems, and provided the information collected to the study committee. The committee also supplemented its expertise by holding its second meeting in Dearborn, Michigan, where it met in proprietary sessions with several of the major automobile manufacturers, a key supplier, and a small business inventor of a shifter interlock system to learn of planned new seat belt use technologies as well as about company data concerning their effectiveness and acceptability. The committee's findings and recommendations are presented in this five-chapter report.
Study of Methods for Increasing Safety Belt Use
Author: Exploring the Methods to Increase Seat Belt Usage in Kansas
Author: Sunanda DissanayakePublisher:
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Category : Automobile driver education
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Seat belt usage has frequently been identified as one of the most effective ways of improving highway safety and considered to be particularly useful in reducing fatalities. However, the state of Kansas experiences considerably lower safety belt usage rates compared to many other states and the national average. The Kansas Department of Transportation and other involved parties are interested in improving the usage rates and thereby improve safety of road users in Kansas. Accordingly, the main objective of this study was to explore the methods to increase seat belt usage in Kansas with the intention of reducing huge economic losses to the state in the form of traffic crashes. This objective was achieved by two parallel approaches: (1) By identifying the factors that affect safety belt usage in Kansas so that more effective programs could be developed. (2) By gathering information on attitudes, perceptions, understanding and other related characteristics of Kansans in relation to safety belt use. During the first approach, statistical models were developed to predict state seat belt usage rates based on factors that include demographic characteristics, socio-economic factors and policies/regulations. To supplement this, statistical models predicting traffic fatalities and unrestrained vehicle occupant fatalities as a function of seat belt law and other characteristics mentioned previously were also developed. These models could be used to quantify the effects of enforcing primary seat belt law in saving lives in Kansas. During the second approach, focus group surveys were conducted among Kansans to identify more direct human factor related issues and seat belt usage in Kansas. Focus group surveys of Kansas drivers were a real eye opener, indicating very low understanding regarding the seat belt law, where lower income groups, younger drivers, and minority groups particularly lagged. Stated belt use behavior revealed that females versus males, van users versus pick-up truck drivers, older drivers versus young drivers, non-Hispanics versus Hispanics are more likely to use seat belts. Reasons for non-use included absence of factors which positively affect the decision, types of trips. Even though some of these factors are beyond control, other findings indicate that a considerable percentage of drivers suggest stricter laws and other punishments to improve their own safety, perhaps because they are not able to maintain a high level of self-discipline by themselves.
Study Methods for Increasing Safety Belt Use
Author: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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