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Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (IHSDM): Overview
The Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (IHSDM) is a suite of software analysis tools used to evaluate the safety and operational effects of geometric design decisions on highways.
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Understanding the Causative, Precipitating, and Predisposing Factors in Rural Two-Lane Crashes
The overall objectives of this study were to: Identify and explore alternative safety data sources and analysis perspectives Demonstrate the potential utility of these alternative approaches in increasing understanding of precipitating events and predisposing factors for crashes occurring on horizontal curves and at unsignalized intersections along rural two-lane roads.
Driver Acceptance of Connected, Automation-Assisted Cruise Control
This report documents the results and conclusions of an initial experiment that examined human factors issues in the use of adaptive cruise control (ACC) and a hypothetical cooperative ACC (CACC), which is an ACC system enhanced with vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications to share information on speed, brake position, and distance between vehicles.
New Report: Don’t Overlook Humans’ Role in Autonomous Vehicle Safety
Even as self-driving technology avoids crashes, imperfect human operators will still share the road and share the wheel. WASHINGTON, DC – Autonomous vehicles (AVs) promise to bring many mobility benefits and reduce traffic crashes enormously, as the federal government notes 94% of crashes are estimated to involve driver error. However, there will continue to be crashes, […]
What is Alabama Doing to Fight the Opioid Crisis?
In 2016 alone, 341 people in Alabama died from overdoses related to opioids, including heroin, prescription opioids and synthetic opioids such as fentanyl. Many health experts believe that medication-assisted treatment (MAT) such as buprenorphine plays a key role in addressing this crisis.
OIG Report on NHTSA Light Passenger Vehicle Recalls
NHTSA’s process for monitoring for light passenger vehicle recalls lacks documentation and management controls, and does not ensure that remedies are reported completely and in a timely manner. The Agency also does not verify recall completion rates, although it has the authority to do so, and it lacks sufficient management controls to ensure staff assess risk […]
Engaging Students with Disabilities in Safe Routes to School
Students with disabilities should be considered in the planning and implementation of Safe Routes to School activities related to all of the Six E’s of Safe Routes to School. Providing an inclusive framework that outlines strategies for engaging students with disabilities from the beginning of the planning of your Safe Routes to School program is […]
National Traffic Volume Trends
Traffic Volume Trends is a monthly report based on hourly traffic count data reported by the States. These data are collected at approximately 4,000 continuous traffic counting locations nationwide and are used to estimate the percent change in traffic for the current month compared with the same month in the previous year. Estimates are re-adjusted […]
Utilizing Drone Technology to Optimize Accident Investigations
We are still pretty far off from a RoboCop future. But that hasn’t stopped police from soliciting help from robots on the job. Well, the flynig kind anyway. According to a 2017 report by Freedonia Group, drone spending by county and municipal governments will reach $80 million by 2025 – mostly for police, fire and […]
As Driverless-Car Crashes Mount, Fear of Riding in Them Rises, Too
Americans have been shaken by crashes of driver-less cars and their semi-autonomous counterparts, two recent surveys show. A Brookings Institution online survey found that 61% of Americans said they were not inclined to ride in self-driving cars. A poll done by Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety found that 69% of those surveyed said they […]