Understanding sleepiness – including how to manage it to minimise safety risk – is vitally important. However, it is one thing to recognise that sleepiness is a critical safety issue; it is quite another to set up a successful, scientifically informed fatigue risk management programme. Sleepiness management is a complex issue within the Transport Human Factors domain.

Professor Filtness’ lecture will draw on 16 years of research work in this area, undertaken with a range of amazing collaborators, to journey through what we do and don’t know about driver sleepiness.

Ultimately, much can be done to manage it – but it is essential to understand the causes before appropriate solutions can be identified and implemented.