Circadian Allertness Simulator for Fatigue Risk Assessment in Transportation: Application to Reduce Frequency and Severity of Truck Accidents

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Moore Ede, Martin ^a   Heitmann, Anneke ^a   Guttkuhn, Rainer ^a   Trutschel, Udo ^a   Aguirre, Acacia ^a   Croke, Dean ^a  

^a Circadian Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident prevention; Accidents; Alertness; Circadian rhythms; Fatigue; Highway accidents; Mathematical model; Rail; Road transport; Shiftwork; Sleep; Transportation; Truck; Work schedules

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ALGORITHM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRIVER; FATIGUE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHIFT WORKER; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; VALIDATION PROCESS; WORK; WORK SCHEDULE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAR DRIVING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SAFETY; VALIDATION STUDY; WAKEFULNESS;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FATIGUE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; WAKEFULNESS; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 1442329236     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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