New Findings in Risk Management Described from University of New South Wales (The effects of training impulse control on simulated driving)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- Investigators publish new report on Risk Management. According to news reporting originating in Sydney, Australia, by VerticalNews journalists, research stated, "There is growing interest in young driver training that addresses age-related factors, including incompletely developed impulse control. Two studies investigated whether training of response inhibition can reduce risky simulated driving in young drivers (aged 16-24 years)."

Financial support for this research came from Australian Research Council.

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the University of New South Wales, "Each study manipulated aspects of response inhibition training then assessed transfer of training using simulated driving measures including speeding, risky passing, and compliance with traffic controls. Study 1 (n = 65) used a Go/No-go task, Stop Signal Task and a Collision Detection Task. Designed to promote engagement, learning, and transfer, training tasks were driving-relevant and adaptive (i.e. difficulty increased as performance improved), included performance feedback, and were distributed over five days. Control participants completed matching 'filler' tasks. Performance on trained tasks improved with training, but there was no significant improvement in simulated driving. Study 2 enhanced response inhibition training using Go/No-go and SST tasks, with clearer performance feedback, and 10 days of training. Control participants completed testing only, in order to avoid any possibility of training response inhibition in the filler tasks. Again performance on trained tasks improved, but there was no evidence of transfer of training to simulated driving. These findings suggest that although training of sufficient interest and duration can improve response inhibition task performance, a training schedule that is likely to be acceptable to the public does not result in improvements in simulated driving."

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "Further research is needed to investigate whether response inhibition training can improve risky driving in the context of real-world motivations for risky driving."

For more information on this research see: The effects of training impulse control on simulated driving. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2018;119():1-15. Accident Analysis and Prevention can be contacted at: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, England. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Accident Analysis and Prevention - www.journals.elsevier.com/accident-analysis-and-prevention/)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting J. Hatfield, Univ New South Wales, Transport & Rd Safety Res Center TARS, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Additional authors for this research include A. Williamson, E.J. Kehoe, J. Lemon, A. Arguel, P. Prabhakharan and R.F.S. Job.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2018.06.012. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Keywords for this news article include: Sydney, Australia, Australia and New Zealand, Risk Management, University of New South Wales.

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