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Category: Analysis & Data
2011 Alabama NHTSA Traffic Records Assessment
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), responding to a request by the Law Enforcement and Traffic Safety Division (the “highway safety office” or HSO) of the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (ADECA), assembled a team to conduct a traffic records assessment. Concurrently the HSO carried out the necessary logistical and administrative steps […]
2011 Crash Facts Book
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.
eCrash Filter Catalog
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IHSDM/HSM Alabama
Alabama is in the process of a project to study the best approaches for implementing IHSDM/HSM/SA in Alabama. The objective of the project is to develop a plan of action and schedule that includes a scope of work to optimize the implementation of the AASHTO HSM methodologies and the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) supporting software […]
2010 Crash Facts Book
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.
Work Zone Lane Closure Analysis Model
At the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT), the tool used by traffic engineers to predict whether a queue will form at a freeway work zone is the Excel-based ―Lane Rental Model‖ developed at the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (OkDOT) and whose work zone capacity values are based on the 1994 Highway Capacity Manual (HCM, 1994). […]
Crash Cost Estimates by Maximum Police-Reported Injury Severity Within Selected Crash Geometries
Publication No. FHWA-HRT-05-051 This paper presents estimates for the economic (human capital) and comprehensive costs per crash for six KABCO groupings within 22 selected crash types and within two-speed limit categories (= 50 mi/h)). The comprehensive costs include nonmonetary losses. To produce these cost estimates, previously developed costs per victim keyed on the AIS injury […]