摘要: |
Because of the importance of safety, and the potential benefits for both the general public and the commercial vehicle industry of improving safety, the main goal of this project is to identify those commercial vehicle-related technologies that, through successful adoption, have had a positive impact on the safety of motor carrier companies. This is examined through two perspectivesone simply examining the effect of a technology implementation on safety and the second identifying the effect of a successful adoption of a technology on safety. It is hypothesized that technologies with factors that lead to successful adoption will have a greater safety impact. Negative binomial regression models with the dependent variables of three separate measures of safety are utilized to test each technology, and the overall results are mixed. The models for onboard safety monitoring technologies (that did not rate high on average for any adoption factor) illustrate no significant effect on safety; however, the models for technologies in both the freight mobility area and the electronic clearance area illustrate a negative effect on safety. In addition, the results for two specific technologies reveal that the companies that implement these technologies and rate the adoption factors higher (e.g., successfully adopted the technology) are likely to have fewer accidents than companies that implement these technologies and rate the adoption factors lower. The main implication of this study for both commercial vehicle companies and government agencies is that simply implementing a technology, or advocating implementing a technology, may not give a desired result, and in some cases may even result in a negative impact on safety. |