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This Power Point presentation was given at the meeting of the Traffic Records Coordinating Committee on February 11, 2015. It highlights major changes in crash patterns that occurred in CY2015 by comparing all of the data elements for this year with the past years. The major findings included a major shift from rural to urban […]
The Federal Highway Administration said vehicle miles traveled in November on all U.S. roads reached an estimated 253.2 billion VMT, up 4.3 percent from a year earlier and continuing a trend that should make 2015 the heaviest traffic volume year in U.S. history. For the first 11 months of 2015, the agency said, total U.S. […]
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration releases a monthly report containing traffic data comparing each State. They host traffic data from as far back as 1970. You can find out more Here
USATODAY: Young adults are ditching driver’s licenses at a quickening pace, according to a new study, raising a red flag for automakers as they grapple with the emergence of ride-sharing services and an indifferent attitude about cars. Just over three in four people ages 20 to 24 in 2014 possessed a driver’s license, according to […]
LANDLINEMAG: Traffic deaths increased in many states last year, according to preliminary traffic fatality data for 2015. More than 850 people were killed on Missouri roads in 2015, an 11.4 percent increase from the previous year, according to a Missouri Department of Transportation news release. Last year’s traffic fatalities were the most since 2009. Nearly […]
The Alabama Crash Facts Book (CFB) is an annual publication produced in part by CAPS that provides a wide breadth of traffic safety statistics for a variety of constituencies. While most of the users of the CFB are traffic safety personnel, this publication is also intended to serve as a public information conduit. Fatal crashes […]
WASHINGTON – New data released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) show that U.S. driving reached 273.5 billion miles in October 2015, the highest of any October on record, and more than 2.63 trillion miles so far this year. The new data, published in FHWA’s latest “Traffic Volume Trends” […]
USATODAY: If you hit the roads, the skies or the rails this holiday season expect to have a little company: almost one-third of the country to be exact. The number of holiday travelers this year will top 100 million for the first time, the AAA travel organization said Tuesday. Most of those people will be driving […]
CDC: Over 30,000 people are killed in motor vehicle crashes each year in the United States. In 2013, crash deaths resulted in $44 billion in medical and work loss costs in addition to the immeasurable burden on the victims’ families and friends. The fact sheets below highlight the cost of deaths from motor vehicle crashes […]