who, in the early 1980's, was a three-time winner of the National Bus Rodeo sponsored by the American Transit Bus Association. This individual was Low Risk on WayPoint and he is among the very safest drivers that MARTA employs.

Follow-up MARTA Validation Study
After the original blind validation with 50 operators, we tested an additional 333 drivers, most hired just before the Olympics.  Similar to the first MARTA validation study, WayPoint accurately identified the high risk operator in 59% of cases while "false alarming" less than 15%.  For non-preventable collisions the numbers were 62% and 24%, respectively.
Overall, substituting collision rates for operators whose risk is acceptable by WayPoint for those whose risk is not acceptable, the first validation study shows a resulting 41% decline in preventable collisions.  Under normal circumstances, where all drivers have been selected by WayPoint, a 25% reduction in collisions fleet-wide is not overly optimistic. 
Along with crash reduction, the new data show a 10% reduction in tardyness, a 17% reduction in customer complaints and a 15% reduction in non-preventable collisions. The reduction in customer complaints is in line with the results of another study with over-the-road trucks where WayPoint identified half the drivers who had had at least one call to the "800 How's My Driving?" telephone line.
The range of vehicles (car, bus, OTR truck, local delivery and refuse pickup) for which we have tested drivers has helped us better understand  bus collisions.  For example, the data show that the ratio of non-preventable to preventable collisions is 2:1 for buses, whereas for over-the-road trucks and cars, the ratio is approximately 1:2.  Coupled with the high overall bus collision rate (32/million miles; NSC, 1993), these data reflect the nature of transit buses to be unsynchronized with traffic flow.  To the degree that local delivery trucks stop and go like buses, they also have more non-preventable than preventable collisions.