Category: Analysis & Data

  • April 13th, 2015

The National Symposium on Work Zones and Large Trucks was held as a one-day event at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Hotel in Jacksonville, Florida, on April 13, 2015. The objective of the symposium was to exchange experiences and identify solutions to further improve large truck safety and mobility in and around work zones. Attendees […]

  • April 12th, 2015

DOT HS 812 128 The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s traffic crash data provides the underpinning for informed highway safety decision-making at the Federal, State, and local levels. Accurate, accessible, timely, and standardized data allows decision-makers to: determine the primary factors related to the sources of crashes and their outcomes develop and evaluate effective safety […]

  • March 12th, 2015

What GAO Found The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) followed a reasonable process for redesigning the National Automotive Sampling System Crashworthiness Data System (NASS-CDS), which is a nationally representative sample of police-reported motor vehicle traffic crashes. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has standards and guidelines that specify the professional principles and practices […]

  • February 23rd, 2015

U.S. Driving at Highest Level Since 2007, New Data Show Nearly Three Trillion Miles Traveled in 2013 Underscores Call for Greater Transportation Investment WASHINGTON – New data released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) show that Americans drove nearly 3 trillion miles in 2013, the highest level in six years, […]

  • February 11th, 2015

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has established several programs and policies to mitigate the safety and mobility impacts of work zones. One such policy is the Work Zone Safety and Mobility Rule. This Rule requires agencies that receive Federal-aid highway funding to develop and implement an agency-level work zone safety and mobility policy, procedures to […]

  • February 5th, 2015

NPR: Moving from crisis to crisis — for too long that’s been America’s strategy for dealing with the challenges of an aging transit infrastructure, from roads to bridges to ports. The result is a system that’s crumbling and in desperate need of attention, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Transportation. The […]

  • February 4th, 2015

The National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Survey (NMVCCS), conducted from 2005 to 2007, was aimed at collecting on-scene information about the events and associated factors leading up to crashes involving light vehicles. Several facets of crash occurrence were investigated during data collection, namely the precrash movement, critical pre-crash event, critical reason, and the associated factors. […]

  • January 5th, 2015

TRL: In 2013, 112 people were killed on the roads in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Although this is a reduction of a third since 2008, Thames Valley Police and Hampshire Constabulary remain committed to further reducing the number of casualties resulting from road traffic collisions. At a time when financial […]