Identification and Assessment of Preventative Methods to Mitigate Cognitive and Physical Declines Which Influence Driving Performance of Older Drivers

The objectives are to: (1) provide additional guidance on the efficacy of the coaching app to improve older driver performance and safety over a prolonged exposure period; (2) determine the strength of mindfulness meditation training on improving attention and driving performance; and (3) determine how the two treatments combined may result in additional gains in performance over each individual treatment.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $299647
• Contract Numbers:

  1036342 WO#46

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Local Road Research Board

  395 John Ireland Boulevard
  St. Paul, Minnesota  United States  55155-1899

  Minnesota Department of Transportation

  395 John Ireland Boulevard
  St Paul, MN  United States  55155
• Performing Organizations:

  University of Minnesota

  HumanFIRST Laboratory
  Department of Mechanical Engineering
  Minneapolis, MN  United States  55455
• Principal Investigators:

  Morris, Nichole

• Start Date: 20220712
• Expected Completion Date: 20240630
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged drivers; Cognitive impairment; Driver performance; Mobile applications
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01836014
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Minnesota Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: 1036342 WO#46
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Feb 16 2022 11:24AM