Learning in accident reduction

Accidents of street car and motor coach operators show a reduction as on-the-job learning takes place. For 60 street car motormen and 34 motor coach operators, most of the improvements in reduction in the number of accidents was accomplished by the sixth or seventh month of employment. By the end of the seventeenth month the accident rate was reduced more than half, but even then it was still falling. Since obviously a training program cannot last over such a long period, the training program should be changed so that it is based upon a sound psychological analysis of the types of abilities required by the situation in which street cars and motor coaches are operated.