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Giancarlo Ghislanzoni, Gilad Myerson, and Alessandro Faure Ragani By more fully evaluating available countermeasures, stakeholders can focus on the most effective ones. Each year, traffic crashes kill more than 1.2 million people around the world and injure up to 50 million.1 In fact, they are the leading cause of death among people 15 to 29 […]
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.
Ozzie Zehner Electric cars don’t solve the automobile’s environmental problems. Last summer, California highway police pulled over pop star Justin Bieber as he sped through Los Angeles in an attempt to shake the paparazzi. He was driving a hybrid electric car—not just any hybrid, mind you, but a chrome-plated Fisker Karma, a US $100 000 […]
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.
Motor-vehicle deaths in February of 2012 totaled 5,280. This figure is up 14% from the corresponding 2-month period in 2011. The February figure for 2012 was up 13% from the 2010 figure. The February total for 2011 was 4,640, a less than 0.5% decrease from 2010. The 2010 figure was 13% lower than 2009. The […]
The following is an abstract of a study performed using crash reports from Alabama over the past ten years. Some differences in the reporting process itself originated in July 1, 2009 when DPS and several key local reporting agencies began using eCrash, Alabama’s electronic crash reporting system. In 2012 eCrash was used in over 90% […]
Since the 1950s transportation professionals have been able to quantitatively assess project alternatives based on mobility, and more recently in terms of environmental impact. Limited means have existed to assess the safety performance of different design alternatives. To help address that gap, the Highway Safety Manual (HSM) was published by the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO), culminating ten years of research and development […]
The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that examines efforts to employ SafetyAnalyst, a new tool that may help states determine system-wide safety-based design decisions by incorporating steps from the roadway safety management process. SafetyAnalyst was developed as a cooperative effort by the Federal Highway Administration and participating state and local agencies.
This user manual provides guidance for the use of the Enhanced Interchange Safety Analysis Tool (ISATe). This tool can be used to evaluate freeway and interchange safety. The algorithms and equations used in ISATe are implemented in a Microsoft ® Excel ® workbook as software (using the Visual-Basicfor-Applications programming language). The user manual consists of three chapters. The […]