Transportation Seminar Series
Development and Implementation of a Commercial Driver Safety History Indicator into the Roadside Inspection Selection System
Oct 10, 2007 (1:30 - 2:30 p.m., IACC 422)
The majority of prior research and analysis has indicated driver-related factors as the main cause of most commercial vehicle-related crashes. The main goal of this project was to provide a greater concentration on the commercial driver in order to have the most significant impact on the number of crashes. The study combined and expanded on two previous research efforts – the development of the Inspection Selection System (ISS) and a project analyzing the use of driver traffic conviction data to better identify high safety risk motor carriers. The project integrated a new carrier driver conviction measure into the current ISS and conducted a pilot test of this new ISS algorithm, termed ISS-D. Results from the pilot test indicated an approximate 10 percent increase in driver out-of-service rates after the ISS-D algorithm implementation. In addition, there was an almost doubling of the driver out-of-service rate when ISS-D recommended the inspection.
Brenda Lantz, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute – NDSU
Brenda Lantz is the Program Director for the Transportation Safety Systems Center branch of UGPTI. The Center is responsible for software development for commercial vehicle safety enforcement programs, as well as safety-related research and analysis. Brenda holds a Masters degree in Statistics from NDSU, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration, Supply Chain and Information Systems, from Penn State. She has more than 16 years of experience in transportation research, primarily in the commercial vehicle safety systems field, and has worked extensively with both government and private industry agencies.
