Resources

Web Resources

AARP

http://research.aarp.org/consume/fs51r_older_drivers.html
This section of the website concerns older drivers from the research perspective.

American Academy of Family Physicians

The Older Adult Driver
www.aafp.org/afp/20000101/141.html
This article summarizes key issues for older drivers from the physician's perspective.

Canadian Medical Association

Determining Medical Fitness to Drive
www.cma.ca
This is a guide for physicians about driving issues.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

State Injury Programs
www.cdc.gov/programs/injury12.htm
This website presents descriptions of activities conducted by states to track and prevent injuries.

CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Fact Sheet: Older Adult Drivers
www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/older.htm
The CDC gives you the facts about older drivers.

Federal Highway Administration

Highway Statistics 2001
www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohpi/hss/index.htm
The FHWA offers publications relating to highway traffic patterns and driver licensing.

National Household Travel Survey
www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohpi/nhts/index.htm
This website is a database of travel patterns in the United States.

Office of Highway Policy Information
The Mobility Consequences of the Reduction or Cessation of Driving by Older Women
Burkhardt, J., Berger, A.M., and McGavock, A.T.
www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/womens/wtipage.htm
The FHWA website features research on the effects of driving changes for older women.

Women's Travel Issues: Proceedings from the Second National Conference.
www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/womens/wtipage.htm.
Some excellent resources on women and mobility issues can be found in the proceedings from the October 1996 conference on women's travel issues.

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

www.hwysafety.org/safety%5Ffacts/elderly.htm
This website features older-driver injury information.

Fatality Facts on Older People
www.hwysafety.org/safety%5Ffacts/elderly.htm
This website features older-driver fatality information.

National Academy of Sciences Transportation Research Board

www.nas.edu/trb/
This organization's home page provides updates on national issues relating to transportation.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Older Road Users
www.nhtsa.gov/people/injury/olddrive/index.html
Here is an online library of research studies, references and policy statements relating to NHTSA's older-driver safety initiative.

NHTSA 1993 Report to Congress:
Addressing the Safety Issues Related to Younger and Older Drivers
www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/olddrive/pub/yorept.html#Table%20of%20Contents
This report has useful charts to show trends across age groups in licensing, crashes, fatalities and other issues related to motor-vehicle safety.

Family and Friends Concerned about an Older Driver
www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/olddrive/FamilynFriends/faf_index.htm
The NHTSA report summarizes how families and friends influence older drivers.

Older Road User Research Plan, August 2001
www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/olddrive/OlderRoad/
The appendices in this NHTSA document, especially the literature review, are useful summaries of relatively current expert perspectives on older-driver safety.

Traffic Safety Facts 2001
www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/TSFAnn/TSF2001.pdf
Here is a compilation of motor-vehicle-crash data.

Strategies for Aggressive Driver Enforcement
www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/enforce/aggressdrivers/toc.html
This document describes the problem of aggressive driving in the U.S.

DOT/NHTSA Highway Safety Priorities (January 2003)
www.aamva.org/documents/abtdotnhtsahighwaysafetyprioritiesbodmtg012003.ppt
The costs of traffic safety are discussed in this PowerPoint presentation.

The Graying of America - Safe Mobility for Life
www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-50/ciren/2001/1201nhtsa.pdf
This is a PowerPoint presentation by John Eberhard, an expert on older-adult mobility issues.

NHTSA Initiative for Increasing Seatbelt Use
www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/airbags/presbelt/index.html
NHTSA Motor Vehicle Occupant Safety Survey
www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/research/SafetySurvey/
These two NHTSA documents above discuss the use of safety belts.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Driving Decisions and Vehicle Crashes Among Older Drivers, 1995
http://ntl.bts.gov/data/older.pdf
Projecting Fatalities in Crashes Involving Older Drivers, 2000-2025
www-cta.ornl.gov/Publications/Older_Drivers/
The two reports above contain statistical analyses by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics

http://transtats.bts.gov/
If you need a statistic about transportation, check out this website.

Aging Today
"Driving Ms. And Mr. Aging: A National Mobility Agenda"
www.asaging.org/at/at-221/focusdriving.html
This article presents the perspective of aging-services providers with respect to the mobility of older adults.

Older Pedestrians: Engineering for Safety
www.dot.ca.gov/hq/traffops/survey/Older%20Ped%20Safety.ppt
This is a PowerPoint presentation by Patti Yanochko, MPH, San Diego State University Center for Injury Prevention Policy and Practice.

"About Older Drivers"
www.intellesis.com/samples/0002/blue-gold/nart16.htm
This article from the website of Johnston Medical Center in Palmdale, CA, discusses materials available for physicians on older-driver issues.