Reducing Reversing Vehicle Incidents in Australian Fleet Settings—A Case Study

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Wishart, D
Somoray, K
Rowland, B
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Stanton, NA

Landry, S

DiBucchianico, G

Vallicelli, A

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2017
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Reversing vehicle incidents is a significant but often overlooked issues in organisations. Utilising three Australian organisations, this study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of reversing aids and a behaviour-change program in reducing reversing-related crashes in fleet settings. Reversing-related incidents increased from Time 1 to Time 2 in the organisation that did not implement a specific strategy to reduce their reversing-related crashes and in the organisation that implemented the reversing aids intervention. However, the increase was only statistically significant in the organisation that utilised the reversing aids technology. In this organisation, the odds of its drivers getting involved in a reversing incident has almost doubled from Time 1 and Time 2. In contrast, the frequency of reversing incidents in the organisation implementing the behaviour-change program has significantly decreased, with less than 50% chance of its drivers being involved in a reversing incident from Time 1 to Time 2. The implications associated with these results will be discussed.

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Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation

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484

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Transportation, logistics and supply chains

Road transportation and freight services

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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence

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Wishart, D; Somoray, K; Rowland, B, Reducing Reversing Vehicle Incidents in Australian Fleet Settings—A Case Study, Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation, 2017, 484, pp. 733-744