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The risk of pedestrian and bicycle accidents at railroad grade crossings would decrease with sustained enforcement and education by local governments, along with consistency in design standards for warning devices, according to a study by the Urban Transportation Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2389 consists of seven papers that explore driver yielding behavior to pedestrians; emissions estimation at multilane roundabouts; the safety effects of converting intersections to roundabouts; predictions of capacity for roundabouts; the influence of sight distance on crash rates and operating speeds; roundabout critical headway […]
Michael Turnbell, Sun Sentinel The latest way to stop speeders in South Florida? Trick them with an optical illusion. The “magic” involves marking a road with hash marks, similar to those on a football field. With the lines spaced at gradually closer intervals, drivers get the illusion they’re going faster than they really are — […]
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.
House committee leaders usually have a driver on staff to shuttle them between Hill votes, fundraisers, and speeches, but Transportation ad Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster let the technology take the wheel Wednesday. After a 30-mile ride in a driverless car developed by General Motors and Carnegie Mellon University, the Pennsylvania Republican said the experience – […]
Tightened government regulations on the amount of hours long-haul truckers can spend on the road have been largely upheld by the federal appeals court, ending a 14-year legal fight between the industry and consumer groups. Some of the rules being challenged went into effect July 1, and include: Limiting the maximum average work week for […]
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 […]
Technology that’s traditionally been used for perimeter security at prisons and airports is getting a new role in Colorado: detecting wildlife along highways and warning drivers in real time. A cable buried nine inches underground detects changes in the Earth’s electromagnetic field, like the presence of a large animal, and transmits that information to a […]
Lydia Seabol Avant, Tuscaloosa News TUSCALOOSA | The Tuscaloosa County Commission could soon adopt a policy to regulate where speed tables can be placed. There is no policy or process regulating speed tables in unincorporated areas of Tuscaloosa County. Currently, county commissioners propose placing the tables based on requests from their constituents. The requests then […]
Senior drivers who always take a pet in the car are at increased risk for being involved in a motor vehicle collision, said University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers. In a study published in Accident Analysis and Prevention on May 2, 2013, the research team said both overall and at-fault crash rates for drivers 70 years […]