Journal article
Situation Awareness Fast-Tracking, Including Identifying Escape Routes (SAFER): Evaluation of the Impact of SAFER on Learner Driver Situation Awareness Skills
Transportation Research Record, Vol.2672(33), pp.1-10
2018
Abstract
Despite a plethora of education, engineering, and enforcement-related intervention, the pernicious problem that is young driver road safety remains of global interest. Compared with more experienced drivers, young novice drivers have been found to have deficits in situation awareness skills (SAS), which is an essential repertoire of knowledge and abilities in perceiving, comprehending, and appropriately responding to a breadth of driving risks (projection). Current practice requirements in Queensland, Australia, do not incorporate SAS-specific training for parents, the most common supervisor of novice drivers. This study evaluates the impact of SAFER, a SAS-acquisition acceleration "game" in which parents foster SAS in their child during the period before licensure, on novice driver SAS at learner licensure. Sixty parent-pre-learner dyads were recruited from the Sunshine Coast and randomly allocated to intervention (n = 30) and control (n = 29). Using a SAS-based coding taxonomy, SAS was measured via simulator-based verbal commentary protocol at learner licensure as part of a larger longitudinal project. Intervention learners exhibited significantly greater SAS (perception/comprehension/projection of breadth of driving risks), than control learners. Intervention learners exhibited significantly less perception, and considerably greater perception/comprehension/projection SAS than intervention parents. Currently, in Queensland's licensing program there is limited support for parents/other supervisors of learner drivers, and no SAS-focused intervention is available. SAFER is an innovative SAS-acquisition acceleration intervention that has been shown to build SAS even before the young novice is licensed to drive. A larger state-wide pilot is in development to explore the merit of incorporating SAFER within Queensland's graduated driver licensing program. © 2018, National Academy of Sciences: Transportation Research Board 2018.
Details
- Title
- Situation Awareness Fast-Tracking, Including Identifying Escape Routes (SAFER): Evaluation of the Impact of SAFER on Learner Driver Situation Awareness Skills
- Authors
- Bridie Scott-Parker (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and LawLeigh Wilks (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and LawBonnie Huang (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
- Publication details
- Transportation Research Record, Vol.2672(33), pp.1-10
- Publisher
- Sage Publications, Inc.
- Date published
- 2018
- DOI
- 10.1177/0361198118759950
- ISSN
- 0361-1981; 2169-4052; 0361-1981
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2018. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.
- Organisation Unit
- Road Safety Research Collaboration; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; School of Law and Society; School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450882202621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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