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Federal and State Older Road User Programs | FHWA
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)'s Older Driver program focuses on public education and traffic law enforcement issues ...
Highway Safety Improvement Program Special Rules
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If the Older Drivers and Pedestrians Special Rule applies to a State, per 23 U.S.C. 148(g)(2), that State shall include, in its subsequent SHSP ...
Older Road Users | FHWA - Federal Highway Administration
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The Office of Safety is committed to providing a safe environment for older road users, including drivers and pedestrians. Practitioners need to ...
Older Users - Safety | Federal Highway Administration
safety.fhwa.dot.gov/older_users/handbook/ch2.cfm
A higher proportion of passenger vehicle drivers age 70 and older are involved in fatal multiple-vehicle crashes at intersections (40%) than drivers ...
Older Road Users - Safety | Federal Highway Administration
safety.fhwa.dot.gov/older_users/noteworthy/ch2.cfm
Age–related driving impairment is a serious and growing public health and safety problem. Older drivers have crash rates per mile driven similar to ...
Older Users - Safety | Federal Highway Administration
safety.fhwa.dot.gov/older_users/handbook/ch8.cfm
The mean detection distance of the Type-2 object marker was 919 ft by the young-old drivers and 803 ft by the old-old drivers, compared to 1,000 ft ...
Highway Design Handbook for Older Drivers and Pedestrians
www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/humanfac/01103/chp1rec.cfm
For drivers 80 years of age and older, about half of fatal crashes occur at intersections (48 to 55 percent), compared with 23 percent or less for dri ...
Handbook for Designing Roadways for the Aging Population
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The original Older Driver Highway Design Handbook was published by FHWA in 1998 (FHWA-RD-97-135). The 2nd edition, titled Highway Design Handbook for ...
Highway Design Handbook for Older Drivers and Pedestrians
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Highway Design Handbook for Older Drivers and Pedestrians . FOREWORD. The proportion of the population over age 65 is growing significantly. Older ...
Older Users - Safety | Federal Highway Administration
safety.fhwa.dot.gov/older_users/handbook/ch3.cfm
Using induced-exposure methods to gauge crash involvement levels, this analysis showed that drivers over age 75 were overrepresented as the driver at ...
A Clear Resource for Older Road User Safety | FHWA
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Functional decline associated with aging can affect driving ability. Nearly one in five drivers is over 65 years old, and drivers over 65 are one of ...
Older Road Users - Safety | Federal Highway Administration
safety.fhwa.dot.gov/older_users/noteworthy/ch1.cfm
The Alberta Traffic Safety Guide to Accommodating Older Drivers is a practitioner guide that provides a set of strategies for transportation agencies ...
Guidelines and Recommendations to Accommodate Older Drivers and ...
highways.dot.gov/research/publications/safety/FHWA-RD-01-051
Older road users can be expected to have problems as drivers and as pedestrians, given the known changes in their perceptual, cognitive, and ...
Engineering Guidance and Training | FHWA - Federal Highway Administration
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The 2nd edition, titled Highway Design Handbook for Older Drivers and Pedestrians (FHWA-RD-01-103) was published in 2001. This 3rd edition, under a ...
Designing Highways With Older Drivers in Mind | FHWA
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The Older Driver Highway Design Handbook (Publication No. FHWA-RD-97-135) summarizes the results and findings of the FHWA older driver program. It is ...
Senior Mobility Series: Article 8 New Vehicle Technologies May Help ...
highways.dot.gov/public-roads/novdec-2007/senior-mobility-series-article-8-new-vehicle-technologies-may-help-older
"NHTSA understands that making the design of vehicle subsystems compatible with the capabilities of the full spectrum of the driving population is a ...
Chapter 10. Construction/Work Zones | FHWA - Federal Highway Administration
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Thus, older drivers require delineation information that is optimal from the standpoints of both attention conspicuity and search conspicuity ...
The Older Driver Comes of Age | FHWA - Federal Highway Administration
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The lab's projects include a Driving and Personal Mobility Program and a National Older Driver Safety Advisory Council, created by MIT and AARP. At ...
Driver Screening and Assessment | FHWA - Federal Highway Administration
highways.dot.gov/safety/other/older-road-user/north-american-conference-elderly-mobility-nacem-noteworthy-2
Age–related driving impairment is a serious and growing public health and safety problem. Older drivers have crash rates per mile driven similar to ...
Driver Education and Training | FHWA - Federal Highway Administration
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While driver safety programs address cognitive abilities and skills, older drivers can also improve their safety by ensuring their vehicles are ...