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2017 Saint Patrick’s Day Drunk Driving Prevention
St. Patrick’s Day is March 17th, and we continually see a spike in drunk-driving crashes on this date every year.
News
Read the latest news and announcements from traffic safety interest groups and about traffic safety topics here.
U.S. Driving at Highest Level Since 2007
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, […]
Analysis of Naturalistic Driving Study Data: Offset Left-Turn Lanes
Report S2-S08B-RW-1 The purpose of this research project was to demonstrate one application of the SHRP 2 Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS) data, showing how these data can be used to answer a highway safety question and provide guidance for the implementation of safety countermeasures. The specific safety countermeasure evaluated in this project is offset left-turn […]
FHWA Oversees Bridge Safety
Report Number: ST-2015-027 FHWA established a data-driven, risk-based approach to oversee States’ compliance with the NBIS, which its Division Offices have effectively implemented. However, we identified gaps in three areas of FHWA guidance that could limit the program’s long-term success. First, FHWA established the Assessment Reporting Tool (ART) to serve as a central repository of […]
FHWA Oversees Bridge Safety
Report Number: ST-2015-027 FHWA established a data-driven, risk-based approach to oversee States’ compliance with the NBIS, which its Division Offices have effectively implemented. However, we identified gaps in three areas of FHWA guidance that could limit the program’s long-term success. First, FHWA established the Assessment Reporting Tool (ART) to serve as a central repository of […]
Maintenance Operations
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 […]
Seat Belt Use in 2014—Overall Results
Seat belt use in 2014 remained at 87 percent, unchanged from 2013. This result is from the National Occupant Protection Use Survey (NOPUS), which is the only survey that provides nationwide probability-based observed data on seat belt use in the United States. The NOPUS is conducted annually by the National Center for Statistics and Analysis of the National Highway Traffic Safety […]
Traffic Likely to be Worse in 30 Years
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 […]
Traffic law ‘turning point’? Ohio judge rules speed cameras violate rights
Speed cameras just got ticketed. An Ohio judge ruled Thursday that a Cincinnati-area community’s speed cameras violate drivers’ rights under the state constitution, in what attorneys on the case called a first-ever ruling against the ubiquitous enforcement tool.