Application of a sociotechnical systems approach to the road safety domain is lagging behind other safety domains. Benefits in reviewing driver error have begun to be recognized, but not yet transcended into countermeasures. This book covers the role that the sociotechnical system plays in the study, theory, and mitigation of driver distraction.

Driver Distraction: A Sociotechnical Systems Approach promotes a sociotechnical systems approach to driver distraction. This perspective focuses on analysis of the whole system, its values, and the interactions between human and technical elements at all organisational levels. The book covers the role that the sociotechnical system plays in the theory, study and mitigation of driver distraction. The book will be of interest to accident and incident investigation researchers and practitioners.

• Provides a review of the current state of driver distraction research
• Describes the development, application, and validation of a novel model of driver distraction that accounts for the sociotechnical system
• Discusses a new, systems-based, driver distraction definition
• Explains AcciMap analysis of the current legislation on driver distraction from technological devices
• Offers novel approaches to understanding why driver distraction occurs
• Presents a extensive framework of the causal factors that lead to distraction informed by drivers