Evidence for Drivers - Mobility Impaired

Disability | Accessibility of the strategic road network

Objectives: A communications document summarising actions taken and actions pending regarding improving accessibility of the Highways Agency network.

Author(s): Highways Agency

Published: Highways Agency, Undated
Date Added: 14 Feb 2013
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The safety of physically disabled drivers

Objectives: To investigate the frequency of traffic RTIs for disabled drivers and compare to a control group.

Author(s): L. Ysander

Published: British Journal of Industrial Medicine 1966, 23, 177, 1966
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Assessment of vehicle safety problems for special driving populations: Final report

Objectives: To identify driving problems related to vehicle operation encountered by physically limited drivers.

Author(s): A. J. McKnight, M. A. Green, F. Masten, and R. J. Koppa

Published: US Department of Transportation, 1979
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Evaluating drivers licensed with medical conditions in Utah, 1992 - 1996

Objectives: Comparison of citation, RTI and at fault RTI rates of restricted and unrestricted drivers with medical conditions, to inform future licensing restriction conditions.

Author(s): E. Diller, L. Cook, D. Leonard, J. Reading, J. Dean and D. Vernon

Published: Utah CODES, US Department of Transportation, 2000
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The Iceberg Principle: The knock on effects of addressing the safety of “special needs” road users

Objectives: To estimate wider potential benefits for other road users when problems for special needs road users are addressed.

Author(s): M. King

Published: Proceedings of the Road Safety Research Policing and Education Conference, 2000
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Adaptation evaluation – An Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) system used by drivers with lower limb disabilities

Objectives: Investigation of how ACC influenced workload, comfort and driving behaviour for drivers with disabilities.

Author(s): B. Peters

Published: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, 2000
Date Added: 14 Feb 2013
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Drivers with disabilities – their cars, driving habits and safety

Objectives: To gather data on driver’s specific disability, their vehicle and any modifications, and their RTI involvement.

Author(s): P. Henriksson and B. Peters

Published: Nordic Road and Transport Research, 2002
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Review of the road safety of disabled children and adults (TRL559)

Objectives: A review of the available information on road safety of children and adults with disabilities.

Author(s): K. Williams, T. Savill and A. Wheeler

Published: Transport Research Laboratory, 2002
Date Added: 14 Feb 2013
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An overview of the literature on disability and transport

Objectives: To provide an overview of the literature relating to transport.

Author(s): Louca-Mai Wilson

Published: Disability Rights Commission, 2003
Date Added: 14 Feb 2013
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Joystick controlled driving for drivers with disabilities. A simulator driving experiment

Objectives: Investigation of alternative joy stick designs on vehicles adapted for drivers with severe disabilities, in order to establish ease of learning, ease of use and degree to which the adaptation compensates for the disability.