Potential Safety Benefits of Motor Carrier Operational Efficiencies (2011) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:
Pages 51-57
The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.
From page 51... ...
; • Optimizing fuel economy and safety: – Using speed limiters; – Monitoring driver fuel economy; and • Monitoring vehicle condition. These practices have in common that they are potentially timeor cost-saving practices with concurrent safety effects, mostly benefits, of interest.
|
From page 52... ...
A new Freight Performance Measures service available from the American Transportation Research Institute and FHWA provides extensive and detailed travel time data to allow carriers to adjust their operations toward faster Interstate highway freight lanes and faster times for travel. Routing and navigation software vendors are making progress in incorporating traffic avoidance into their programs.
|
From page 53... ...
Almost all of them believed that speed limiters had no negative effects on their company's safety and productivity. A more direct method for improving fuel economy is to monitor fuel use of individual drivers and trips.
|
From page 54... ...
to reduce crash risk systematically; • Pre-trip planning for individual trips, to include routes and schedules, including planned rest stops; • PM schedules and records for each vehicle, aided by maintenance management software; • Aggressively reducing empty backhaul trips for financial benefits and to reduce unnecessary risk exposure; • Reducing loading and unloading delays by working with shippers and receivers and by changes in carrier operations; • Optimizing routing for individual vehicles and whole operations. Expedited travel through improved routing generally translates into safety gains as well; • Providing truck-specific navigational aids to drivers; • Assigning familiar routes to drivers when possible; • Routing vehicles through divided, limited-access roads (e.g., Interstates)
|
From page 55... ...
Only a few companies, however, were able to provide even a limited amount of quantitative data, suggesting that rigorous safety program evaluation was lacking among Australian motor carriers. Two operational issues presented on project surveys generated the widest variations in opinion.
|
From page 56... ...
; • Driver Acceptance: Ensures that drivers are receptive to technologies that are user-friendly and effective in improving safety and security; • Market Image: Involves using state-of-the-art technologies to improve a carrier's image by designating a company as progressive and concerned about the safety and security of their drivers and loads; • Market Demand: Depends on awareness of the technology, along with acceptance and belief in its value, which is particularly important to manufacturers introducing a new product; • In-Cab Technology Interface Integration: Minimizes cost, distraction, and human errors while using the technology; and • Liability: Influences carriers, drivers, and manufacturers, particularly relating to the data stored by certain technologies and their use. Several of the operational practices in this report were addressed under the Motor Carrier Efficiency Study (MCES)
|
From page 57... ...
Studies of motor carriers with a wider range of safety performance records would strongly test safety management conclusions drawn in this and other studies based mainly on safety-conscious motor carriers and their officials. Such studies could be structured as case-control or parametric comparisons between carrier practices and their safety performance criterion measures.
|
Key Terms
This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More
information on Chapter Skim is available.