Bus Driver Fatigue

Ashleigh Filtness
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Final Report Press Release Sleepiness Fatigue Occupational Safety Transport Safety

This mixed methods research programme used focus groups, interviews, survey and on-road investigation to understand sleepiness and fatigue in London city bus drivers, and suggest potential solutions to mitigate the impact on safety. The project was commissioned by Transport for London and conducted in collaboration with Dr Anna Anund and colleagues from the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI).

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Ashleigh Filtness
Ashleigh Filtness
Professor of Transport Human Factors and Sleep Science

Publications

Keeping the service running: Examining working relationships and workload of London bus network iBus controllers

Bus controllers are an essential part of the London bus network. Although the bus driver is the individual directly in control of the …
Sally Maynard, Karl Miller, Ashleigh Filtness
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Bus driver fatigue: A qualitative study of drivers in London

The research represents one of the first major qualitative studies to subjectively investigate fatigue amongst city bus drivers. Funded …
Sally Maynard, Ashleigh Filtness, Karl Miller, Fran Pilkington-Cheney
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A qualitative study exploring how city bus drivers manage sleepiness and fatigue

Sleepiness is an important consideration for workplace safety, especially in relation to shift work. There is limited understanding of …
Fran Pilkington-Cheney, Ashleigh Filtness, Cheryl Haslam
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Contributory factors to sleepiness amongst London bus drivers

Driver sleepiness contributes to a substantial proportion of all road crashes. Despite all that is known about driver sleepiness, bus …
Karl Miller, Ashleigh Filtness, Anna Anund, Sally Maynard, Fran Pilkington-Cheney
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Factors associated with self-reported driver sleepiness and incidents in city bus drivers

Driver fatigue has received increased attention during recent years and is now considered to be a major contributor to approximately …
Anna Anund, Jonas Ihlström, Carina Fors, Göran Kecklund, Ashleigh Filtness
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