scholarly journals The impact of a meal, snack, or not eating during the night shift on simulated driving performance post-shift

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-84
Author(s):  
Charlotte C Gupta ◽  
Stephanie Centofanti ◽  
Jillian Dorrian ◽  
Alison M Coates ◽  
Jacqueline M Stepien ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Night Shift ◽  
Driving Performance ◽  
Simulated Driving ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Post Shift

The Impact of Intersection Design on Simulated Driving Performance of Young and Senior Adults

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oritz Shechtman ◽  
Sherrilene Classen ◽  
Burton Stephens ◽  
Roxanna Bendixen ◽  
Patricia Belchior ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Driving Performance ◽  
Senior Adults ◽  
Simulated Driving ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Intersection Design

The Impact of Intersection Design on Simulated Driving Performance of Young and Senior Adults

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orit Shechtman ◽  
Sherrilene Classen ◽  
Burton Stephens ◽  
Ethan Davis ◽  
Roxanna Bendixen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Driving Performance ◽  
Senior Adults ◽  
Simulated Driving ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Intersection Design

scholarly journals High risk of near-crash driving events following night-shift work

2015 ◽  
Vol 113 (1) ◽  
pp. 176-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Lee ◽  
Mark E. Howard ◽  
William J. Horrey ◽  
Yulan Liang ◽  
Clare Anderson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Shift Work ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Night Shift ◽  
Driving Performance ◽  
Previous Night ◽  
Shift Workers ◽  
Night Shift Work ◽  
The Impact

Night-shift workers are at high risk of drowsiness-related motor vehicle crashes as a result of circadian disruption and sleep restriction. However, the impact of actual night-shift work on measures of drowsiness and driving performance while operating a real motor vehicle remains unknown. Sixteen night-shift workers completed two 2-h daytime driving sessions on a closed driving track at the Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety: (i) a postsleep baseline driving session after an average of 7.6 ± 2.4 h sleep the previous night with no night-shift work, and (ii) a postnight-shift driving session following night-shift work. Physiological measures of drowsiness were collected, including infrared reflectance oculography, electroencephalography, and electrooculography. Driving performance measures included lane excursions, near-crash events, and drives terminated because of failure to maintain control of the vehicle. Eleven near-crashes occurred in 6 of 16 postnight-shift drives (37.5%), and 7 of 16 postnight-shift drives (43.8%) were terminated early for safety reasons, compared with zero near-crashes or early drive terminations during 16 postsleep drives (Fishers exact:P= 0.0088 andP= 0.0034, respectively). Participants had a significantly higher rate of lane excursions, average Johns Drowsiness Scale, blink duration, and number of slow eye movements during postnight-shift drives compared with postsleep drives (3.09/min vs. 1.49/min; 1.71 vs. 0.97; 125 ms vs. 100 ms; 35.8 vs. 19.1; respectively,P< 0.05 for all). Night-shift work increases driver drowsiness, degrading driving performance and increasing the risk of near-crash drive events. With more than 9.5 million Americans working overnight or rotating shifts and one-third of United States commutes exceeding 30 min, these results have implications for traffic and occupational safety.

scholarly journals Driving Competence in Mild Dementia with Lewy Bodies: In Search of Cognitive Predictors Using Driving Simulation

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Yamin ◽  
Arne Stinchcombe ◽  
Sylvain Gagnon
Keyword(s):  
Dementia With Lewy Bodies ◽  
Lewy Bodies ◽  
Space Perception ◽  
Driving Performance ◽  
Driving Safety ◽  
Visual Object ◽  
Safe Driving ◽  
Simulated Driving ◽  
Space Processing ◽  
The Impact

Driving is a multifactorial behaviour drawing on multiple cognitive, sensory, and physical systems. Dementia is a progressive and degenerative neurological condition that impacts the cognitive processes necessary for safe driving. While a number of studies have examined driving among individuals with Alzheimer’s disease, less is known about the impact of Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) on driving safety. The present study compared simulated driving performance of 15 older drivers with mild DLB with that of 21 neurologically healthy control drivers. DLB drivers showed poorer performance on all indicators of simulated driving including an increased number of collisions in the simulator and poorer composite indicators of overall driving performance. A measure of global cognitive function (i.e., the Mini Mental State Exam) was found to be related to the overall driving performance. In addition, measures of attention (i.e., Useful Field of View, UFOV) and space processing (Visual Object and Space Perception, VOSP, Test) correlated significantly with a rater’s assessment of driving performance.

Police drowsy driving: predicting fatigue-related performance decay

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 517-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. James ◽  
Bryan Vila
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Reaction Time ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Driving Performance ◽  
Drowsy Driving ◽  
Shift Workers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Work Cycle ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Post Shift

Purpose – Fatigue associated with shift work is a well-established and pervasive problem in policing that affects officer performance, safety, and health. It is critical to understand the extent to which fatigue degrades officer driving performance. Drowsy driving among post-shift workers is a well-established risk factor yet no data are available about officer injuries and deaths due to drowsy driving. The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of fatigue associated with work shift and prior sleep on officers’ non-operational driving using laboratory experiments to assess post-shift drowsy driving risks and the ability of a well-validated vigilance and reaction-time task to assess these risks. Design/methodology/approach – Experienced police patrol officer volunteers (n=78) from all four shifts of a medium-sized city’s police department were tested using a within- and between-subjects design to assess the impact of fatigue on individual officers, as well as the impact of different work shifts, on post-shift driving performance. Controlled laboratory experiments were conducted during which participants drove high-fidelity driving training simulators on two occasions: immediately following five consecutive 10:40-hour patrol shifts (fatigued condition) and again 72 hours after completing the last shift in a work cycle (rested condition). Findings – Generalized linear mixed-model analyses of driving performance showed that officers working night shifts had significantly greater lane deviation during post-shift, non-operational driving than those working day shifts (F=4.40, df=1, 150, p=0.038). The same method also showed that easy to measure psychomotor vigilance test scores for reaction time predicted both lane deviation (F=31.48, df=1, 151, p < 0.001) and collisions (F=14.10, df=1, 151, p < 0.001) during the simulated drives. Research limitations/implications – Simulated driving tasks done by participants were generally less challenging than patrol or off-duty driving and likely underestimate the impact of fatigue on police driving post-shift or during extended shifts. Originality/value – This is the first experimental research to assess the impact of shiftwork, fatigue, and extended shifts on police post-shift drowsy driving, a known risk factor for shift workers in general.

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