The Center for Advanced Public Safety conducts special studies regarding traffic safety, utilizing data from its analytics programs, and publishes them for the public.

Most studies featured here have been written by Dr. Dave Brown, a CAPS Research Affiliate and traffic safety data analytics expert.

COVID-19/Coronavirus

• COVID Crash Fatality Special Report
• COVID Follow-up: First 25 Weeks of 2021 Crash Comparisons
• COVID Follow-up: First 17 Weeks of 2021 Crash Comparisons
• COVID Follow-up: 2021 to 2020 Crash Comparisons
• COVID Impact General Time Analysis
• Week 31
• Week 35
• Week 39
• Week 43

Driver Issues

• Aggressive Operation 2022 Update
• Aggressive Driving
• Child Restraints and Passengers of Age 0 – 15
• Distracted Driving Updates for the 2023 HSP
• Distracted Driving PowerPoint Summary
• Distracted Driving Update for Electronic Devices
• Drowsy Driving
• Failure to Yield and Ran
• Impaired Driving 2021 Update
• Impaired Driving 2019 Update 
• License Deficiencies of Certain Unlawful Drivers
• Passing Issues — Improper Passing and Crashes in No-Passing Zones
• Restraint Problem Identification 2014-2017 Data
• Restraint Problem Identification 2016-2020 Data
• Safety Effects of Adding Troopers
• Senior Driver Update 2022
• Senior Driver General Issues
• Senior Driver Lighting Issues
• Speeding Analysis PPT Crashes 2012-2016
• Speeding Caused Severe Crashes 2019-2021
• Wrong Way Driving (WWD)
• Young Driver Update 2022
• Young Driver Issues
• Youth Risk Taking Mitigation

Vehicle-Related

• ADAS Evaluation: Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB)
• ADAS Evaluation: Five Additional Features
• ADAS Evaluation: Forward Collision Warning (FCW)
• ADAS Evaluation: Lane Departure Warning (LDW)
• Driver & Vehicle At-Fault Analysis
• Large Trucks and CMV Update
• Large Truck and CMVs
• Motorcycle Caused (MC) Crashes 2016-2020 Data
• Motorcycle Involved Crashes 2010-2014 Data
• Railroad Involved Crashes
• Vehicle Defects Update 2022
• Vehicle Defects: Brakes and Tires
• Vehicle Defects/Recalls
• Young Drivers of ATVs, Bicycles, and Motorcycles

Weather

• Interstate Wet Pavement Hot-Spots
• Roadway Weather Safety Data Integration, by Laura Myers, PhD
• Wet Weather and Fatalities Relationship

Other

• Alabama Fatal Crashes in 2016 Compared to 2014
• CARE Software Guide
• Holidays
• Pedestrians
• Pedestrian Recent Updates for the 2023 HSP
• Roadside Crashes
• Roadway Lighting
• Table One: Highest Level View of Traffic Safety Issues
• Traffic Safety Resource Allocation
• Traffic Safety Resource Allocation UPDATE
• Work Zones