Citation

Banfield S, Cockfield S. Proc. Australas. Road Safety Res. Policing Educ. Conf. 2001; 5.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, copyright holder varies, Publisher Monash University)

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Abstract

As part of its HELP youth strategy, the TAC developed a program designed to gauge the impact of personalised support for learner drivers on the extent and quality of their supervised driving practice. Designed as a two year, five-stage longitudinal study, the Learner Driver Trial (LDT) involved a sample of parents/supervisors of learner drivers being contacted via telephone every three to four months. The major finding of the study indicates that the LDT has a significant influence on the amount, type and variety of supervised practice learner drivers obtain within the first year of their learner permit tenure. However, towards the later stage of the trial there was generally no difference between the LDT drivers and the control group on measured variables. This suggests that the most significant LDT effect occurs immediately after obtaining a learner permit and helps learners sustain reasonable levels of practice throughout the learner period.