UC San Diego’s Transportation Research and Education for Driving Safety (TREDS) Center is committed to preventing crash-related morbidity and mortality by improving safe driving behaviors. TREDS offers two courses that aim to prevent commercial motor vehicle-involved crashes resulting from distracted and substance-impaired driving, and partners with California Trucking Association to make courses available to the commercial motor vehicle industry.
Train-the-Trainer programs are available for safety professionals, as well as online learning for drivers. Courses are approximately 60-minutes in length and available in both English and Spanish.
Courses focuses on distraction related to the use of cell phones and electronic devices:
- Scope of the problem
- Risk and consequences
- Rules and regulations
- Strategies to prevent distracted driving
- Fatigue and drowsy driving
- Work zone safety
Courses focuses on substances most commonly reported to the FMCSA Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse:
- Scope of the problem
- Contributing factors
- Risks and consequences
- Laws and testing procedures
- Strategies to drive-drug free
