Safe Mobility for Older Americans (2005) / Chapter Skim
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APPENDIX Summary of Research Recommendations from Technical Papers Conference Proceedings 27: Transportation in an Aging Society: A Decade of Experience Mobility of the Elderly: Good News and Bad News (Rosenbloom) • Investigate the extent to which older drivers reduce, as opposed to modify, driving activities.
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• Identify groups to assist with training and education. • Extend research beyond visual acuity to other vision measures.
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• Conduct further research into the relationship between crash risk and visual contrast-sensitivity, especially due to cataract. • Determine which screening tests or combinations of tests are the best predictors of crash risk.
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Driver Programs (Staplin and Hunt) • Explore financing arrangements, including the role of insurance companies, for assessment and rehabilitation programs.
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• Critically examine travel needs and abilities from older persons' perspectives. • Evaluate the effectiveness of travel training and mobility managers.
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Highway Research to Enhance Safety and Mobility of Older Road Users (Schieber) • Develop performance-based requirements for highway sign legibility and use these parameters to establish and validate minimum retroreflectivity requirements.
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Safety of Older Pedestrians (Oxley, Fildes, and Dewar) • Conduct a more detailed investigation of crash involvement patterns.
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• Identify vehicle and highway features that address at-risk road users. • Formulate intervention strategies, including driver testing, training, education, and licensing.
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that divide attention (braking and object recognition) , optimizing the form that display images take (size, color, location, etc.)
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• Provide information that helps older drivers shift to another form of transportation (including a change in lifestyle) as they become incapable of safe driving.
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Market Leverage and Stimulation • Promote industry research and development and the affordability of new technologies through federal tax incentives. • Urge the insurance industry to provide technology discounts for use of "safety technologies." • Amend state liability statutes to extend protection to volunteer driver networks and educate volunteers about these protections.
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