ARRIVA Passenger Services Ltd (APS Ltd) has invested in a major research programme that helps to support the government's road safety strategy to significantly reduce accident rates by 2010. This initiative is also in line with concerns about work-related accident risk, estimated to account for nearly a third of all road traffic accidents. The research is part funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and the Dti and aims to reduce bus crashes from three distinct yet related approaches. The first is concerned with the development of a bus-driving simulator to support driver training. The second is the design of a psychometric measure to help select drivers who may require additional driver training. The third is an investigation of organisational culture that may affect bus driver behaviour. For the covering abstract see ITRD E119888. This paper may also be accessed by Internet users at: http://www.rospa.com/CMS/viewarticle.asp?article=3850&scheme=7
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