Category: Analysis & Data

  • May 14th, 2014

Most statistical information needs can be obtained online from the new CARE Dashboard, developed by the University of Alabama Center for Advanced Public Safety (CAPS). Use the tutorials available here to learn about the data and the CARE Dashboard. Details on the CARE software are also available on the CARE page of the CAPS website. […]

  • April 11th, 2014

This document presents the Alabama Traffic Safety Information Systems (TSIS) Strategic Plan for the 2014-2019 time period, or planning horizon. It begins by providing context in terms of the overall background and history of the planning process over the past decade. Alabama’s Traffic Safety Information System (TSIS) components include all of the hardware, software and […]

  • January 1st, 2014

The Alabama Crash Facts Book (CFB) is an annual publication produced in part by CAPS that provides a wide breadth of traffic safety statistics for a variety of constituencies. While most of the users of the CFB are traffic safety personnel, this publication is also intended to serve as a public information conduit.

  • October 12th, 2013

DOT HS 811 753 Motor vehicle travel is the primary means of transportation in the United States, providing an unprecedented degree of mobility. Yet for all its advantages, motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for age 4 and every age 11 through 27 (based on 2009 data). The mission of the National […]

  • October 12th, 2013

Giancarlo Ghislanzoni, Gilad Myerson, and Alessandro Faure Ragani By more fully evaluating available countermeasures, stakeholders can focus on the most effective ones. Each year, traffic crashes kill more than 1.2 million people around the world and injure up to 50 million.1 In fact, they are the leading cause of death among people 15 to 29 […]

  • September 12th, 2013

AL.com: Americans are logging fewer miles behind that wheel, but that’s not the case in Alabama, a new report shows. Driving Alabama is Dawn Kent Azok’s weekly look at auto industry news, from the state’s car assembly lines to its roadways and beyond.

  • July 12th, 2013

Ozzie Zehner Electric cars don’t solve the automobile’s environmental problems. Last summer, California highway police pulled over pop star Justin Bieber as he sped through Los Angeles in an attempt to shake the paparazzi. He was driving a hybrid electric car—not just any hybrid, mind you, but a chrome-plated Fisker Karma, a US $100 000 […]