Tag: Demographics

  • July 14th, 2020

The objective of this study was to prospectively examine a wide array of driver personal and situational factors to determine the prevalence of these factors as well as their relationship to being involved in a crash. This study involved the collection of driver medical, demographic, and other personal factors to examine the relationship between these […]

  • March 26th, 2019

The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety is dedicated to saving lives through research into the causes of traffic crashes and educating the public about ways to prevent crashes and reduce injuries based on research. One of the fundamental elements of any traffic safety research is quantifying traffic risks, which requires two types of data: 1) […]

  • February 14th, 2019

In the year 2040, Alabamians will take stock of their transportation network and how it provides for economic growth and quality of life. They will look back on decisions made in 2019 by Alabama’s citizens, business community and Legislature. Exotic and disruptive innovations such as automated and autonomous vehicles, networked ridesharing, and cars and trucks […]

  • February 12th, 2019

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is leading a Safety Data Initiative (SDI), to enhance the analysis and visualization that informs safety policy decisions. In support of the SDI, Volpe applied machine learning techniques to assess the potential for crowd-sourced roadway data such as Waze alerts to serve as a reliable indicator of police-reportable crashes. […]

  • December 12th, 2018

The International Transport Forum collected mobility and road safety data from 31 cities, the majority of which in Europe, 10 in the Americas and 2 in Oceania. Indicators were developed to evaluate, monitor and benchmark road safety outcomes. A network of road safety experts was developed in parallel to support data collection and to exchange […]

  • December 3rd, 2018

In the previous five reports in this series, I examined recent changes in the number of registered light-duty vehicles (cars, SUVs, pickups, and vans), and the corresponding changes in distance driven and fuel consumed. The units of the analyses were both the absolute numbers and the rates per person, per driver, per household, and (where […]

  • August 1st, 2018

Traffic Volume Trends is a monthly report based on hourly traffic count data reported by the States. These data are collected at approximately 4,000 continuous traffic counting locations nationwide and are used to estimate the percent change in traffic for the current month compared with the same month in the previous year. Estimates are re-adjusted […]

  • June 4th, 2018

The Department of Public Safety has released their drivers’ license age ranges report for 2017. This report gives the number of drivers by age and race. This report can be used in many different ways, one example being if someone wants to compare crashes by age, this report gives how many drivers are in each […]

  • May 23rd, 2018

U.S. DOT Federal Highway Administration: Traffic Volume Trends is a monthly report based on hourly traffic count data reported by the States. These data are collected at approximately 4,000 continuous traffic counting locations nationwide and are used to estimate the percent change in traffic for the current month compared with the same month in the […]