How can we manage driver sleepiness?

24 January 2024 Loughborough University

In the world of transportation, sleepiness poses a major safety risk and is a leading contributor to accidents.

Understanding sleepiness – including how to manage it to minimise safety risk – is vitally important. However, it is one thing to recognise that sleepiness is a critical safety issue; it is quite another to set up a successful, scientifically informed fatigue risk management programme. Sleepiness management is a complex issue within the Transport Human Factors domain.

Professor Filtness’ lecture - How can we manage driver sleepiness? - will draw on 16 years of research work in this area, undertaken with a range of amazing collaborators, to journey through what we do and don’t know about driver sleepiness.