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Motor vehicle crashes involving deer historically peak during the fall months in North Carolina, and the state’s most recent crash data shows no exception to that rule. In 2012, more than half of all deer-related crashes in North Carolina occurred in the months of October, November and December. “Deer on or near the roadways is […]
Every year, the average American commuter spends a total of about one week of their life in traffic. Traffic congestion and the resulting delays costs major U.S. cities $121 billion in fuel costs and productivity loss annually, the equivalent of about $800 per commuter. Now, computer scientists in Pennsylvania have a new smart traffic signal […]
Two new studies find that young Americans are changing the nation’s transportation landscape. They drive less, want to stay connected as they travel, embrace car-sharing, bike-sharing, ride-sharing. Young Americans, whose embrace of new technologies and social networking tools enable them to adopt new ways of getting around, are beginning to change the nation’s transportation landscape.
A number of cars offer systems that can detect an impending collision and, in some cases, apply the brakes automatically. On Friday, a leading auto safety group issued its first ratings of the systems. “Front crash prevention systems can add a thousand dollars or more to the cost of a new car. Our new ratings […]
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 […]