Effects of Sleep Schedules on Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Performance

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• Creators:
  Balkin, T. ; Thome, D. ; Sing, H. ; Thomas, M. ; Redmond, D. ; Wesensten, N. ; Williams, J. ; Hall, S. ; Belenky, Gregory
• Corporate Creators:
  Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Division of Neuropsychiatry
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Sleep deprivation
  • Commercial drivers
  • Driving simulators
  • Field studies
  • Laboratory studies
  • Personnel performance
  • Actigraphic assessment
  • Sleep schedules
  • Wrist actigraphy
  • sleep/performance model
• Publication/ Report Number:
  Report No. DOT-MC-00-133
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1503015
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• TRIS Online Accession Number:
  00802562
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Human Factors
• Abstract:
  The project entitled "Effects of Sleep Schedules on Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Performance" was comprised of two studies: a field study and a laboratory study. In the field study, wrist actigraphy was used to determine amounts of sleep in long-versus short-haul commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers over 20 consecutive days, continuously, during and outside the work shift. Results from this study revealed the extent to which inadequate sleep constitutes a potential problem for these two subpopulations of CMV drivers. In the laboratory study, the effects of 3, 5, 7, and 9 hours of nightly time in bed (TIB) on subsequent performance (on a variety of psychomotor tasks, including simulated driving), were measured across 7 consecutive days in CMV drivers. Results from this study were used to optimize the parameters of the Walter Reed Sleep Performance Model (SPM). The SPM, along with a sleep scoring algorithm, has been integrated into the current version of the Sleep Watch Actigraph (SWA), a wrist-worn device for management of sleep and performance in the operational environment.
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  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/33880/dot_33880_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 20.12 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:d8ab32d5fc1f32addaf43e9983d33527b4dbdd620aec0a2dcfe55139b4995c10