Category: Government Agencies

Promising Practices for Transportation Agencies to Address Road Safety Among People Experiencing Homelessness

  • January 24th, 2025

This Case Study highlights how State and local transportation agencies and professionals are implementing strategies to address the road safety needs of people experiencing homelessness—a population that experiences significant disparities in roadway fatalities—as part of their work to reach the goal of zero deaths. The Case Study shares information on seven promising practices. Each promising […]

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Novice Teen Driver Education Data Collection Guide

  • January 24th, 2025

This report helps State driver education program administrators review their current data collection, identify additional sources of relevant information, manage operations, assess the status of driver education, demonstrate accomplishments, and provide a foundation for possible research. Driver education State administrators can use their own data and information from partner agencies to learn about the State’s […]

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Evaluating The Load Capacities of Flooded Pavements

  • January 24th, 2025

Incorporation of flood resilience in road infrastructure is urgently needed to reduce economic losses. Flooded roads may undergo rapid deterioration after being reopened to traffic. Thus, transportation agencies must develop pavement design and management practices and methodologies that account for the likelihood and impacts of flooding, using prior experiences in similar situations and nondestructive testing […]

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Early Estimates of Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities and Fatality Rate Through June 2024

  • January 17th, 2025

NHTSA has recently issued a projection report of traffic fatalities and the fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled (VMT) for the first half of 2024 (Early Estimate of Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities the First Half (Jan–Jun) of 2024, Report No. DOT HS 813 633). That report shows an estimated 18,720 people died in […]

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Pocket Guide to Transportation 2024

  • January 13th, 2025

The BTS Pocket Guide to Transportation is a quick reference guide that provides transportation statistics at your fingertips. It provides key information and highlights major trends on the U.S. transportation system. Intended as a compact reference, the Pocket Guide supports the BTS mission to create, manage, and share transportation statistical knowledge. Read the full article […]

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Intelligent Transportation Systems Deployment Tracking Survey Report

  • January 13th, 2025

This report summarizes the Arterial Management Survey findings of the 2023 Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Deployment Tracking Survey. From 1999 to 2020, the ITS Joint Program Office (JPO) used the ITS Deployment Tracking Survey on an ongoing basis to collect information about ITS deployment in a subset of metropolitan areas across the United States by […]

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A Systematic Approach to Selection of Changeable Messaging Signs During Nonrecurring Events

  • January 13th, 2025

Changeable message signs (CMSs) serve as safe, accessible sources of relevant travel information. Previous research has provided insight into the potential value of CMSs as sources of traveler information. However, a gap remains in efforts to document the information and the messaging that effectively promote desired changes in traveler behavior to improve safety and the […]

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Building Resiliency through Maintenance Activities, Low Volume Roads, and Public Lands Roadways

  • January 13th, 2025

The evolving landscape of climate conditions leads to more frequent and intense natural hazard events, affecting low-volume roads on federal lands. Despite the existence of known maintenance solutions to reduce these impacts, the limited funding availability hinders the implementation of these solutions at scale. This funding limitation is compounded by the absence of necessary data […]

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Building Resiliency through Maintenance Activities, Low Volume Roads, and Public Lands Roadways

  • January 13th, 2025

The evolving landscape of climate conditions leads to more frequent and intense natural hazard events, affecting low-volume roads on federal lands. Despite the existence of known maintenance solutions to reduce these impacts, the limited funding availability hinders the implementation of these solutions at scale. This funding limitation is compounded by the absence of necessary data […]

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Developing a Near-Miss Reporting System for Roadside Responders

  • January 7th, 2025

The safety of roadside responders is often placed in jeopardy by the potential dangers posed by passing vehicles. To develop and implement effective protection measures for roadside responders, comprehensive safety data is essential. Traditional methods relying on crash data to identify incidents involving roadside responders, such as struck-by or secondary crashes, provide some information about […]

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