Workshop Proceedings - AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety

The third event was a workshop that took place at the Transportation Research Board
(TRB) Annual Meeting on January 21, 2007, called the “Licensing Authorities’ Options
for Managing Older Driver Safety—Practical Advice from the Researchers.” The
workshop, led by Jim Langford, included presentations and discussions on a variety of
topics related to licensing older drivers. Papers derived from the workshop
presentations will be appearing in 2008 (Volume 9, Issue 4) in a special issue of Traffic
Injury Prevention.
Several other documents were also reviewed including the 2005 report “Strategies for
Medical Advisory Boards and Licensing Review” by Kathy H. Lococo and Loren Staplin
(see http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/research/MedicalAdvisory/) and the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s overview of current and upcoming
older driver safety projects (see Appendix A).
METHODS
Workshop Participants
Participants in the workshop included authors of the commissioned papers and
presentations (see Appendix B for biographical sketches), as well as a larger group of
invited experts who are involved in older adult licensing policy, practice, and research.
Participants and their roles in the workshop are shown in Table 2.
Workshop Structure and Process
Prior to the workshop, all participants were sent a package of materials to review,
including the commissioned papers and presentation summaries, and electronic links to
information on the previous events on licensing policy. The two-day workshop was held
on December 6-7, 2007 at the Washington, DC offices of AAAFTS and was divided into
three parts: identification of at-risk drivers (Day 1); interventions with at-risk drivers (Day
1); and elements of model licensing systems (Day 2). Each part of the workshop began
with a set of presentations and was followed by one or more breakout sessions to
provide an opportunity for focused discussion on each topic (see Appendix B for
workshop agenda).
The workshop was organized around four breakout sessions – two in the first part, and
one in each of the remaining parts. The breakout sessions focused on developing
consensus guidelines for:
1. Screening and assessment
2. License renewal and physician reporting
3. Interventions for “at-risk” drivers
4. Elements of model driver license systems
As part of each breakout session, three separate discussion groups were held
concurrently. The makeup of the three discussion groups remained the same for all
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