Preliminary plan for case-control crash risk study

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• Creators:
  Ng Boyle, Linda ; Meltzer, Neil ; Hitz, John ; Koopmann, Jonathan
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, (U.S.)
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Case Studies Fatalities Heavy Duty Vehicles Risk Analysis Risk Assessment Sampling Statistical Analysis Truck Accidents Truck Drivers
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT-VNTSC-FMCSA-02-01
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• NTL Classification:
  AGR-SAFETY AND SECURITY-SAFETY AND SECURITY ; AGR-FREIGHT-Motor Carriers ; NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-SAFETY AND SECURITY ; NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Accidents ; NTL-FREIGHT-Trucking Industry
• Abstract:
  The goal of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is to reduce commercial vehicle-related fatalities and injuries. This is achieved through a thorough understanding of crash characteristics, precursors, and risk factors. This will help to better identify and evaluate countermeasures. FMCSA and the Volpe Center will conduct a case-control study to investigate the relative crash risks of truck drivers based on driver, vehicle and operational characteristics. The risk of being involved in a motor vehicle crash can be impacted by driver-related (e.g., health, age, and time spent driving) as well as non-driver related factors (e.g., weather and road conditions). This paper provides the details of the case-control plan, including the study approach, sampling and data collection method, major variables to be assessed, and statistical analyses to be conducted. The case-control method compares the information on crash-involved drivers to that of non-crash-involved drivers. Typically, case-control studies are designed for epidemiological research where the relative risks of diseases are estimated given a person's background or characteristics. The same methodology can also be applied to provide valuable insight on the relative risks of motor vehicle crashes given a driver's background or characteristics. The same methodology can also be applied to provide valuable insight on the relative risks of motor vehicle crashes given a driver's background, attributes, road, vehicle, and trip characteristics.
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:cd189ef36a85ba30f8b269c9155117b24cc0a5e12534f2eb2305009ca79fb2fd
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/11295/dot_11295_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.80 MB ]