This issue of Current Topics includes over 65 abstracts of reports, conference papers, books and journal articles which focus on driving and the elderly in the context of increasing elderly driving populations in the industrialised countries. Topics include identification of the effects of aging on driving skills, assessment of driving performance, simulation, identification of high risk elderly drivers, and rehabilitation programmes. Abstracts are included on specific areas of possible impairment for elderly drivers, such as vision reaction time, judgement of speed and especially safe gap judgement, and driving performance with divided attention; also on particular safety problems which occur with night time driving, lane changing, junction handling, especially when turning across oncoming traffic. These items have been selected from the material added to the Transport Research Laboratory's Library Database between 1995 and 1997. Much of the relevant English language published literature from the UK, USA, Australia and Europe is included; some of the non-UK literature is included courtesy of the OECD International Road Research Documentation (IRRD) database.
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