Safety
U.S.-Mexico Cross-Border Long-Haul Trucking Pilot Program Operational Update Report for Reporting Period: 02/03/2014 - 02/09/2014
Number of Motor Carriers with Active Operating Authority, Carrier Name, Operating Authority Granted, Pending, Dismissed, Withdrawn, Revoked Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Restart Study
The study compared 5-month work schedules and assessed SCEs (e.g., crashes, near-crashes, and crash-relevant conflicts), operator fatigue/alertness, and short-term health outcomes among CMV drivers operating under a 1-night rest period versus drivers operating under a rest period with 2 or more...
Utility for Risk-Based Screening and Assessment (URSA)
In support of FMCSA’s URS-1 development, this award to the SBIR Phase I vendor included production of the URSA tool. The tool included an algorithm and corresponding software for an automatic risk-based assessment that calculated a risk potential based on the likelihood that an applicant for...Restorative Rest for Motorcoach Drivers
The study will analyze the relationships between time off-duty and sleep. This will be a re-analysis of the motorcoach driver sleep and performance data that was collected for the study entitled “Motorcoach Driver Fatigue Study, 2011” (Belenky et al., 2012).