MOTORCYCLE INSURANCE NEWS - from the bike insurance specialist

Wednesday 13th February 2008

The Government has researched the effects of fatigue on motorcyclists, to highlight any links with accidents and explore any possible countermeasures. Unfortunately it concludes that there is insufficient information available to draw any firm conclusions!

In conclusion the report says:

The Department for Transport has commissioned the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) to undertake a literature review of motorcycle rider fatigue.

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The main objectives of the project were to review the relevant literature and ongoing research on rider fatigue, to investigate the incidence of rider fatigue, to identify gaps in knowledge and to outline specifications for future research.

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This report presented the findings of both the literature review and the investigation of the incidence of rider fatigue in order to identify gaps in knowledge. Overall, it was found that there was a significant paucity of rider fatigue research, especially studies that employed appropriate experimental control. The few studies found mainly relied on self-report data. There is little information on the link between fatigue and directly observed effects on rider performance or accidents. Likewise, there is little evidence on the effectiveness of countermeasures specific to motorcyclists. As such, there are large gaps in the research literature, for which several key areas of future research can be proposed.

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