Taha Mehmannavaz - Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Seyed Mahdi Sajjadi - Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Feeling sleepy related to motor vehicle drivers (MVD) are a common form of highway accident. Feeling sleepy or fatigue is a subjective state related to sleep deprivation, the more someone not have sleep the more likely that person is to be fatigued. In this paper, the relationship between felling sleepy and the driving performance of motor vehicle drivers (MVD) was discussed. Therefore, time of the day is a vital factor, as important as the duration of the drive. Unlike most previous paper of feeling sleepy and driving performance, in this paper we want to argue the driving performance of each motor vehicle drivers (MVD) was very important. The systematic studied was determine the effect of sleep deprivation on the driving performance, visual performance, and reaction times of motor vehicle drivers (MVD).

Motor vehicle drivers (MVD); Highway; Accident; Sleep