Objectives: To provide the most up to date information on vehicle design and technology.

Methodology: Review of current practice.

Key Findings:

• As with all motor vehicles, RTIs involving buses and coaches can be caused by a number of factors such as:
• Fatigue;
• Distractions; and,
• Drug or alcohol abuse.
• To address the root causes of RTIs the emphasis is on:
• Detecting and reducing driver fatigue;
• The elimination of driver distractions;
• Improved monitoring to eliminate drug and alcohol use; and,
• Training to reduce risk taking.
• In addition further accident prevention could be achieved through:
• Development and implementing stability control, collision avoidance and lane wandering-warning systems (see the Crash Protection Synthesis).
• Other upgrades are also discussed such as:
• Fire safety Improvements;
• Structural strengthening;
• Roll over protection; and,
• Preventing ejection from windows.

Themes:

Coach safety design, Coach safety improvements.

Comments:

Discusses various improvements that could be made to bus safety but doesn’t provide any examples of the magnitude of improvement that they can offer.

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