Category: Analysis & Data

  • October 3rd, 2017

Transportation.gov: The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) today released fatal traffic crash data for calendar year 2016. According to NHTSA data, which was collected from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, 37,461 lives were lost on U.S. roads in 2016, an increase of 5.6 percent from calendar year 2015. […]

  • September 27th, 2017

The National Safety Council helps you estimate the cost of fatal and nonfatal unintentional injuries at home, at work and in public, as well as the cost of motor vehicle injuries. ​Our nation’s economy is significantly impacted by the total cost of unintentional injuries, including: Motor Vehicle Injuries Injuries at Home Injuries at Work Injuries […]

  • September 9th, 2017

A product of the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Safety Research and Development Program, the Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (IHSDM) is a suite of safety analysis tools to evaluate the safety and operational effects of geometric-design decisions on highways.

  • August 29th, 2017

U.S. Driving Increases for Sixth Straight Year, New Federal Data Show New Federal Highway Data Show Drivers Topped 1.58 Trillion Miles in First Half of 2017 WASHINGTON – New data released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) show that U.S. driving topped 1.58 trillion miles in the first six […]

  • August 12th, 2017

Nathan Bomey, USA Today The divide between urban and rural America in widening in another area that has nothing to do with politics: driving. U.S. city driving has spiked since 2000, while rural driving has declined in a sudden turnabout that cannot be explained by population trends, according to a University of Michigan Transportation Research […]

  • August 3rd, 2017

The coordination of this planning process is a microcosm of the overall ongoing coordination that is required to move the state ahead effectively in applying information technology to its transportation systems. The TRCC conducted a series of meetings to obtain information that was synthesized into a plan that recently obtained NHTSA funding. This effort is […]

  • August 3rd, 2017

NHI is hosting several HSIP and CMF web-based courses over the next couple of months. Course registration is NOW OPEN via the NHI website for the courses and dates shown below. Please note that the dates below refer to the date of the first instructor-led web conference session. There may be web-based (self-paced) modules to […]

  • August 1st, 2017

Alabama has experienced traffic fatalities in 2014. This research effort consisting of a PPT and a narrative was conducted on behalf of the Alabama Traffic Records Coordinating Committee, and it is the first, high-level, effort to get an insight into the causes of the increased fatalities. Unfortunately, there is no silver bullet — all the usual suspects: speed, impaired driving, distracted […]

  • July 15th, 2017

USA Today: The divide between urban and rural America in widening in another area that has nothing to do with politics: driving.U.S. city driving has spiked since 2000, while rural driving has declined in a sudden turnabout that cannot be explained by population trends, according to a University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute study released […]

  • June 3rd, 2017

NHTSA: In 2015, there were 35,092 fatalities in the United States (50 States and the District of Columbia, excluding (Puerto Rico), an increase of 7 percent from 2014 (32,744). This image shows the 2015 traffic fatalities and the percent change from 2014 for each State, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Vermont and Oregon […]