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Horswill, M. S., & McKenna, F. P. (2004). Drivers’ hazard perception ability: Situation awareness on the road. A cognitive approach to situation awareness: Theory and application, 155-175.

This source discusses about the importance of hazard anticipation, in addition to distraction which are the major cause of crashes and accidents. The hazard anticipation maybe an incoming pedestrian in a blind spot and distractions which are self-developed, maybe text messaging while driving. This source helps to further develop the discussion in the recommendation of Distractology programs for the Delivery Drivers Training, as the regular training is not enough.

McDonald, C. C., Goodwin, A. H., Pradhan, A. K., Romoser, M. R., & Williams, A. F. (2015). A review of hazard anticipation training programs for young drivers. Journal of Adolescent Health, 57(1), S15-S23.

This article helps to further the discussion of effectiveness of delivery driver training. Adding to the discussion the authors discusses the importance of Hazard anticipation training programs especially for young drivers. Hazard Anticipation is actually the cause of most crashes, because as established most drivers, young drivers who engage in crashes are not clueless they are careless. This is because poor hazard anticipation skills are liked to high motor vehicle crashes.

Zhang, T., Li, J., Thai, H., Zafian, T., Samuel, S., & Fisher, D. L. (2016, September). Evaluation of the effect of a novice driver training program on citations and crashes. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 1991-1995). Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications.

This source mainly focuses on the effectiveness of novice driver training programs with the main focus being on citations and crashes. The hypothesis of the paper is that actual and regular driver education and training is not effective enough. Therefore, there is the need to provide additionally training for novice drivers, which is the Distractology 101 program, that turned out to be effective, in reducing infractions and crashes.