Recognizing that distracted driving is a growing safety issue across Canada, Transport Canada hosted a National Distracted Driving Roundtable in Montreal with key industry stakeholders, including the Canadian Trucking Alliance and the Quebec Trucking Association.<\/p>\n
The session explored activities underway by various industries to address distracted driving; opinions on key actions required to change road user behaviour concerning electronic devices while driving, cycling or walking; and identifying how different sectors can work together to strengthen awareness and enhance road safety.<\/p>\n
CTA observed the issue of distracted driving among all road users now poses the highest risk of collision, surpassing impairment and speeding. The Alliance promoted a holistic approach to tackling the problem, focusing on prevention and planning, monitoring, enforcement and evaluation.<\/p>\n
Specifically, CTA supports incorporating distracted driving prevention messaging into entry level and ongoing training for truck drivers; as well as adoption of proven technologies such as ELDs, which reduce cognitive distraction; and focusing on the feasibility of regulations for forward-facing cameras for all heavy commercial vehicles.<\/p>\n
CTA also discussed how federal and provincial governments can work with industry to focus on-road enforcement on known human factors that contribute to\u00a0collisions and supporting enforcement and licence agencies to pursue meaningful proactive consequences for those caught driving distracted.<\/p>\n
As well, the industry encouraged government to consider incentives and pilot testing for new generation advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) that can play a meaningful role in reducing distraction.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, CTA is currently in the process of establishing a working group of carriers and industry suppliers to produce a \u201cRoad Map\u201d Policy paper on the issue of distraction with the Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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