The Mature Driver: Safety and Mobility Issues  Naomi G Rotter New Jersey Institute of Technology Claire McKnight City College of New York Presentation to: NJDOT

OBJECTIVES l To build a knowledge base regarding the extent to which aging drivers create a safety threat in New Jersey l To collate, organize, and assess existing information about mature drivers driving behavior, including: their functional abilities, which disabilities significantly diminish their ability to drive, their ability to self- evaluate those abilities and voluntary restriction and cessation of driving among this group. l To document and analyze the practices and experiences of DMVs in the United States

ACTIVITIES l Task I. Literature Review Product: Written report on the literature, summarizing the findings under each of the items above and identifying l Task II. Archive search and data analysis Product: A report summarizing the data, methodology, and findings of this task. l Task III. Survey of DMVs Product: A written report summarizing the practices by state with a summary of ideas and information determined to be the most useful to New Jersey. l Task IV. Synthesis and Final Report

Progress on Literature Search l Databases searched TRIS Online Uncover Medline Lexis-Nexis EBSCO Psychinfo Google search - University Transportation Research Centers Proquest

Useful URLs l l - Major relevant reports to Congress National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research l - Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration l -US Dept. of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, - The Insurance Institute of Highway Safety: An independent, nonprofit, research and communications organization dedicated to reducing highway crash. Includes state by state renewal procedures for older drivers

Useful URLs l - Penn State University: Researchers at Penn State and the University of Minnesota have joined forces to design new measures to prolong the safe driving time of older driver l - University of Michigan, Transportation Research Institute l - Coalition for Safer Highways l - Age Venture News Service: the voice of aging America l - The Highway Loss Data Institute: A nonprofit, public service organization that gathers, processes and publishes data on highway safety.

A Framework for the Literature Search l Safe Driving Related Abilities Visual Cognitive Psychomotor l Health Factors Medications Medical conditions

A Framework for the Literature Search, cont. l Assessing abilities l Skill enhancement l Self-monitoring l State Licensing policies

Literature Search Product l Procite Manager will be used to manage the references for the literature search. This data base will enable a large number of fields to established. l The software will as enable easy formatting for the web so that the final summary can readily be posted on NCTIP web site.

Software l Procite (version 5) for Windows: a program to combine bibliographic formatting. l Includes convenient pull-down pre-defined sort commands and the ability to define groups within each database. l Streamlines the transfer of references from the internet. l Intuitive and user-friendly interface.

Archive Search and Data Analysis Progress l Possible sources of data for accidents and violations NJDMV National Highway Traffic Safety Administration AAA Federal Highway Administration NJ State Police Insurance Associations

Future tasks l Continued locating and obtaining data pertaining to accidents and violations l Analysis and interpretation of data l Survey of state DMVs regarding actual or planned programs for increasing safety of senior drivers l Final report