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As a brand new school year begins, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reminds parents, students and motorists to be alert and to put safety first in school zones and near school bus stops. According to NHTSA data, over the past 10 years, 44 school-aged children and teens between the […]
Every day across the country, firefighters and paramedics respond to urgent calls for help. But many of those responders say it’s taking longer to make their way through congested streets and past inattentive drivers. there are simply more pedestrians, more drivers, more distractions, and more cars that are nearly sound-proof – making it hard to […]
In a big step toward moving the nation’s emergency dispatch system out of voice-only technology that dates to the 1960s, four major wireless sphone companies are now providing text-to-911 services to local governments that want it. Sprint, AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and T-Mobile began offering the service to local governments this month and it’s being used […]
Backup cameras have become ubiquitous on all varieties of cars– from the most affordable subcompacts to the priciest of exotics– but the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration just issued a long-awaited ruling that will make the technology legally required on every sub-10,000 pound vehicle by May of 2018. “Safety is our highest priority,” U.S. Department […]
For Jaideep and Sandhya Jain, the prospect of their teenage son starting to drive led directly to their start-up venture, Truvolo, or true “speed” in Latin, which aims to monitor car health and improve driving habits through data nestled in every automobile’s computer. “It wasn’t about wanting to spy on him, but about making him […]
Every year, the average American commuter spends a total of about one week of their life in traffic. Traffic congestion and the resulting delays costs major U.S. cities $121 billion in fuel costs and productivity loss annually, the equivalent of about $800 per commuter. Now, computer scientists in Pennsylvania have a new smart traffic signal […]
House committee leaders usually have a driver on staff to shuttle them between Hill votes, fundraisers, and speeches, but Transportation ad Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster let the technology take the wheel Wednesday. After a 30-mile ride in a driverless car developed by General Motors and Carnegie Mellon University, the Pennsylvania Republican said the experience – […]
Picture an all-electric vehicle cruising down the highway, emitting little noise and no noxious fumes. It’s such an improvement that you have to wonder why only a handful of all-electric vehicles are now available on the mass market. Here’s a big reason: Picture the driver of that same car getting a call from a relative […]
The purpose of this memorandum is to request your assistance in soliciting projects from State Departments of Transportation (DOTs). Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), Federal Land Management Agencies (FLMAs), and local governments on utilizing INVEST 1.0, FWA’s voluntary self-assessment tool, to assess and enhance the sustainability of their projects and programs. INVEST (Infrastructure Voluntary Evaluation Sustainability […]
INVEST (Infrastructure Voluntary Evaluation Sustainability Tool) is a practical, web‐based, collection of voluntary best practices and criteria designed to help transportation agencies integrate sustainable practices into their projects, plans, and programs. INVEST helps transportation agencies improve investment decisions while considering limited resources by addressing the sustainability triple bottom line ‐‐ enhancing economic, social, and environmental outcomes.
