Stop Revive Survive
Also: Every 2 hours. Stop. Revive. Survive.
“Stop. Revive. Survive.”
Long-running Australian fatigue slogan urging drivers to break every two hours, used on RTA/Transport for NSW leaflets (at least since 2000), roadside and variable message signs, holiday-period police operations and Driver Reviver stops.
- Years
- 2000–now
- Country
- Australia
- Topic
- SleepTraffic safety
- Asks people to
- Substitute
- Strategy
- Coined termSimple instruction
- Channel
- OutdoorRadioTV
- Audience
- General publicLong distance drivers, holiday travellers
Evidence
NoneUnknown
A simulator study testing its premise found a 15-minute nap cut physiological sleepiness but a 15-minute active rest break only made drivers feel less sleepy (Watling et al. 2014), suggesting the 'revive' advice should stress napping.
Sponsor (who paid)
- Roads and Traffic Authority NSW (now Transport for NSW) Foreign government
- Local councils and NSW Police Foreign government
Credits (who made it)
Not recorded yet.
Sources
- Preventing driver fatigue (RTA leaflet, 2000; State Library of NSW record) sponsor · 2000
- Stop and revive? The effectiveness of nap and active rest breaks for reducing driver sleepiness evaluation · 2014 · DOI 10.1111/psyp.12256 · PMID 24961384
Research notes
Created 2026-10-23 from the sleep campaign literature search (PubMed and web search; OpenAlex was unreachable), see docs/sleep-campaigns-literature.md. Findings are paraphrased from abstracts, not full texts; official URLs come from search results and were not opened. Origin year and originating agency not confirmed; the slogan is also used in other states. URL taken from web search results.
Record cases/nsw-stop-revive-survive.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign