Evaluating the Potential Safety Benefits of Electronic Hours-of-Service Recorders [Research Brief]

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Motor carriers
  • Commercial vehicles
  • Hours of labor
  • Data recorders
  • Electronic equipment
  • Traffic violations
  • For hire carriers
  • Commercial drivers
  • Fatigue (Physiological condition)
  • Data logging
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• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1502863
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• Abstract:
  The study quantitatively evaluated whether trucks ; equipped with electronic hours-of-service recorders ; (EHSRs) have a lower (or higher) crash and hours-of-service (HOS) violation risk than those without ; EHSRs. The safety benefits of EHSRs were ; quantitatively evaluated by comparing the crash risk ; for two exposure groups (i.e., EHSRs were ; considered to improve safety if the trucks with ; EHSRs showed a lower crash risk than trucks ; without EHSRs). ; This project conducted a literature synthesis on ; EHSRs and an effectiveness evaluation on EHSRs. ; Data were obtained through a third-party vendor ; that compiled previously-generated compliance data ; regarding participating motor carriers. For this ; project, EHSRs were defined as any device that ; electronically records drivers’ HOS. There have ; been many variations of EHSRs over the years, ; such as automatic onboard recording devices ; (AOBRDs), electronic onboard recorders (EOBRs), ; and functions included in fleet management ; systems. Each of these devices has specific ; functionality that may or may not be embodied by ; the term EHSR
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/186/dot_186_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 83.58 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:0573eaa92ea0c49c32ea879c4a82c5dc831ce2918c6b36da67550fcd9747b319