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Measuring the Impacts of COVID-19 on the Trucking industry: A Spatial and Econometric Framework to Capture the Impacts of the Hours-of-Service (HOS) Emergency Declaration and Congestion Effects on Truck Driver Safety

PI: Salvador Hernandez (OSU), sal.hernandez@oregonstate.edu, ORCID: 0000-0001-8160-5949

Co PIs: none

AMOUNT & MATCH: $40,000 from PacTrans; $40,000 Match

PERFORMANCE PERIOD: 8/16/2020 – 8/15/2022

STATUS: Completed

CATEGORIES: Freight Transportation, COVID-19, Hours-of-Service, Safety

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DESCRIPTION: The goal of this research is to develop a heterogeneity-based econometric framework to capture the impacts of the hours-of-service (HOS) emergency declaration instituted by FMSCA and reduced congestions effects. This will be centered on telematics technology from EROAD and a recently completed COVID-19 National Truck Driver Survey conducted by the PI.  To accomplish this, the Pacific Northwest will be used as a case study which will allow for the evaluation of truck driver safety and cross referencing it with existing state motor carrier crash databases. The findings of this study have the potential to generate truck driver safety performance measures and influencing factors to assess changes in truck driver behavior due to reduced congestions effects and regulatory rule changes during events like pandemics and/or similar system disruptions.