DEMONSTRATION AND EVALUATION OF OLDER ROAD USER GUIDELINES

Project Partners:  MA Governor’s Highway Safety Bureau and Federal Highway Administration

This project, funded by the Federal Highway Administration, is tasked with implementing advanced work zone safety measures, which were designed in accordance with research conducted to study the needs of older drivers.  The implementation of these measures are not only intended to benefit the older drivers but all drivers in the work zone. The purpose of this research is to evaluate selected  work zone measures as part of a field demonstration project. An underlying aim of the research is to assist the Bureau and FHWA in determining the effectiveness of various work zone measures.

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OLDER DRIVER CITATION AND CRASH DATA ANALYSIS

An analysis of Massachusetts citation data for 2001-2003 was conducted to understand the differences in both crash and non-crash behavior between older drivers and other drivers.  Specifically, the differences between males and females, and drivers age 64-84 and age 85+ were considered.  Violations were categorized into movement related violations, risky driving violations and broad scope violations.  Results indicated that there were significant differences across age and sex in all categories.