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Abstract
Vehicle incidents are main cause of death in most countries. The development in vehicle industry has increased the recent decades to a greater extent than before. Drivers may expose different levels of injuries and incidents . Action plan is still needed to achieve the ambitious target for road safety to reduce the number of deaths and injuries from road traffic incidents . Global positioning system (GPS) technology has been used to track the position of the vehicle. There is a need to develop communication between vehicles and applying road safety programs by activating the vehicle movement tracking system to reduce the number of vehicle incidents .
The general objective was to assess impact of application of road safety control measures by tracking the movement of vehicles on decreasing incidents: two - years follow up study - in Petromaint Company. The specific objectives were to assess the traffic incidents statistics from vehicles in Petromaint during the years 2015 and 2016, to assess the traffic incidents statistics from vehicles in Petromaint during the years 2017 and 2018, to assess drivers application response by a pre-designed structured interview questionnaires and to estimate the contribution of tracking the movement of vehicles on decreasing incidents, with the objective of recommending remedial actions.
The number of drivers participated in the study was 45 drivers, working in Alexandria Petroleum Maintenance Company (Petroment) in Wadi Al-Qamar, El-Max, at Alexandria,which is one of the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation companies. The drivers participating in the study represent the company’s various work sites. Revision of PETROMANT vehicle incidents’ records for the years 2015 and 2016. Also, using A pre-designed structured interview questionnaire form, which includes Socio-demographic characteristics,personal habits, professional data,training, violations, safety data, previous incidents, end result, rehabitation...Etc, were used to collect data from Petroment drivers.Moreover,applying PETROMAINT’s vehicle fleet management strategy. Finally, following vehicle incidents’ records for the years 2015 and 2016 and for the years 2017 and 2018 after application of the fleet management strategy.
The current study showed that the ages of the incident free drivers (80%) of all examined subjects have equal major ratios within the age groups of 25 and 35years, which are 41.7% for each. But concerning the incident performing drivers, the majority (55.6%) was within the age group of 45 years, followed by the group age 35 years (33.3%) and none of the incident performing drivers are within the group age 25 years. This reflects the relationship between vehicles incident performing and old age drivers. Also, this study shows that the majority of all the drivers are married and living alone, (42.4%) and (66.7%) for incident free and incident performing drivers, respectively. This was followed by being married and living with family, (39.4%) and (33.3%) for incident free and incident performed drivers respectively, and none of the incident performing drivers is single. This may reflect the relationship between the marital status of the driver (married living in private home) and vehicle incident performing that may be related to the impact of tension, socio-economic and psychological pressures, and social atmosphere around them. Moreover, the presented results indicated that the percent of non-smokers are (72.2%) and (44.4%) among the incident free and the incident performing drivers respectively. So, the majority of the incident free drivers are non-smokers. While the smoking workers smoke cigarettes, shisha or both and all the smoking incident performing drivers are regular smokers. This indicates that there may be a relationship between the smoking habit and vehicle incident performing. Finally the study explained that most of the training sessions were presented during 2017 and 2018 in part of the control measures on reducing vehicle incidents to zero, indicating the increased awareness of the drivers who realized that their behavior during driving was being followed, and they might loose their jobs or be exposed to punishment.
In light of the results of the study, the following recommendations were suggested:
• Enforcement of applying fleet tracking system to all governmental and non governmental enterprises anticipated reaching to zero vehicle incidents .
• Following carefully rapid developments in the means of communication, especially vehicle tracking systems application which help to effectively monitor the movement of vehicles from the beginning of the trips to the end, as well as the participation of vehicle tracking systems in providing help and technical support in emergency situations and all needed information by the drivers on the road.
• Provision and cooperation of all the resources required to achieve an integrated vehicle management procedure from the elements of tracking, maintenance and preparation of reports, such as creating committees from the concerned departments members (safety - maintenance - workshops - transportation - human resources...) to determine the types and specifications of tracking devices required according to the number and types of existing vehicles.
• Necessity to establish the tracking and emergency room to work 24 hours a day by trained and qualified representatives for monitoring vehicles journeys and providing help and technical support for drivers.
• Providing (internal and external) defensive driving training programs by competent instructors to raise the level of drivers’ performance and develop their skills during driving on the road.
• Defining clearly appropriate criteria for the hiring of new drivers as related age, origin, body built, and health status, education, smoking habits, etc, so that the most qualified candidates are selected on sound technical and administrative bases.
• Preparing checking and attendence of workshops for training workers considering incidents management, tools, maintinence, reaching zero incident strategres and procedures and ethical issues.
• Cooperation among enterprises for the mutual use of the available of their tracking systems in recording all data and information on streets and road maps, that will help creating complete database including recording all observations, incidents , nearmisses and preparing statistical reports and lessons learned.