DOT HS 809 583

May 2003

Model Driver Screening and 
Evaluation Program
Final Technical Report

Volume II: Maryland Pilot
Older Driver Study

This document is available to the public from the National Technical Information Service
Springfield, Virginia 22161

Table of Contents

| Technical Report Documentation

| Notice and Acknowledgements

| Chapter 1. Maryland Research Consortium

• Research Mission
• Partners and Partnerships

| Chapter 2. Pilot Study Development

• Research Design Issues
• Validating Functional Tests as Predictors of Driving Impairment
• Administrative Feasibility of Delivering Screening Services
• Test Site and Sample Selection
• License Renewal Sample
• Residential Community Sample
• Medical Referral Sample
• Senior Center Sample
• Test Sites
• Training of Data Collection Personnel

| Chapter 3. Pilot Study Data Collection

• Functional Screening Measures and Screening Procedures
• Perceptual-Cognitive Measures
• Physical Measures
• Mobility Questionnaire

| Chapter 4. Pilot Study Data Analysis and Results

• Extracting Motor Vehicle Administration Safety Data
• Creation of Primary Analysis Database
• Initial Data Processing
• Final Data Processing
• Data Analysis and Results
• Functional Status Summaries for Study Samples
• Driving Habits Reported by Test Samples
• Relationships of Screening Measures With Crash Data
• Relationships of Screening Measures With Conviction Data
• Resource Requirements for Functional Screening

| Chapter 5. Summary and Conclusions

| References

| Appendixes

1. Maryland Research Consortium Working Group Goals, Objectives, and Action Steps
2. Materials Used to Recruit Subjects for the License Renewal Sample, the Residential Community Sample, and the Medical Referral Sample
3. Access Data Structure and Variables Descriptive Statistics for Performance on Screening
4. Measures as a Function of Test Sample
5. Descriptive Statistics for Mobility Questionnaire by Sample
6. Raw SYSTAT Output for Odds Ratio Calculations with Crashes as the Outcome Measure
7. Chi-Square Tables for Tests of Significance at Peak Valid Odds Ratio Values for Crash Data
8. Raw SYSTAT Output for Odds Ratio Calculations with Violations as the Outcome Measure
9. Chi-Square Tables for Tests of Significance at Peak Valid Odds Ratio Values for Violation Data

| List of Tables

| List of Figures

| Model Driver Screening and Evaluation Program Home Page

| Volume I - Project Summary and Program Recommendations

| Volume III - Guidelines for Motor Vehicle Administrators