View a bibliography of published research from CSYD staff.
Established in 2005, the Center for the Study of Young Drivers is a unit of the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center. While it is housed within the HSRC, the CSYD combines expertise from several academic disciplines on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus and throughout the UNC system. A comprehensive understanding of the reasons that young drivers crash more often than others, and how that can be addressed, will require drawing on knowledge of biology, psychology, sociology, cultural anthropology, political science, communication studies, epidemiology and public health.
The study of young drivers has been a program area within the UNC Highway Safety Research Center since 1993. Long at the forefront of research on this important phenomenon, HSRC has been instrumental in shaping policies and programs that have substantially reduced the young driver crash rate in North Carolina and throughout the U.S.