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Alabama Fatalities
The Fatal Crash Comparison (2016 vs 2014) study has been updated to include the new recommendations page at the top of the power point presentation.
News
Read the latest news and announcements from traffic safety interest groups and about traffic safety topics here.
National Roundabout Week: September 17-21, 2018
The first National Roundabout Week will take place the third week of September (17th – 21st). The purpose of NRW will be to raise awareness about roundabouts and to provide a national platform to share the successes that state, local and tribal transportation agencies have had with them. FHWA will be using their social media […]
Transit Safety and Oversight Spotlight: Vol. 3 No. 9
This issue includes: Upcoming Safety Training FTA Drug Abuse Awareness Video Now Available FTA to Host SMS for Executives Training at APTA Annual Meeting SSO and RTA Safety Personnel to Convene for October Training Workshop Have a PTASP Question? Email PTASP_QA@dot.gov Transit Advisory Committee for Safety Re-Established through New Chapter TSO Profile Upcoming Speaking Events
Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (IHSDM): Overview
The Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (IHSDM) is a suite of software analysis tools used to evaluate the safety and operational effects of geometric design decisions on highways.
Understanding the Causative, Precipitating, and Predisposing Factors in Rural Two-Lane Crashes
The overall objectives of this study were to: Identify and explore alternative safety data sources and analysis perspectives Demonstrate the potential utility of these alternative approaches in increasing understanding of precipitating events and predisposing factors for crashes occurring on horizontal curves and at unsignalized intersections along rural two-lane roads.
Driver Acceptance of Connected, Automation-Assisted Cruise Control
This report documents the results and conclusions of an initial experiment that examined human factors issues in the use of adaptive cruise control (ACC) and a hypothetical cooperative ACC (CACC), which is an ACC system enhanced with vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications to share information on speed, brake position, and distance between vehicles.
New Report: Don’t Overlook Humans’ Role in Autonomous Vehicle Safety
Even as self-driving technology avoids crashes, imperfect human operators will still share the road and share the wheel. WASHINGTON, DC – Autonomous vehicles (AVs) promise to bring many mobility benefits and reduce traffic crashes enormously, as the federal government notes 94% of crashes are estimated to involve driver error. However, there will continue to be crashes, […]
What is Alabama Doing to Fight the Opioid Crisis?
In 2016 alone, 341 people in Alabama died from overdoses related to opioids, including heroin, prescription opioids and synthetic opioids such as fentanyl. Many health experts believe that medication-assisted treatment (MAT) such as buprenorphine plays a key role in addressing this crisis.
OIG Report on NHTSA Light Passenger Vehicle Recalls
NHTSA’s process for monitoring for light passenger vehicle recalls lacks documentation and management controls, and does not ensure that remedies are reported completely and in a timely manner. The Agency also does not verify recall completion rates, although it has the authority to do so, and it lacks sufficient management controls to ensure staff assess risk […]
Engaging Students with Disabilities in Safe Routes to School
Students with disabilities should be considered in the planning and implementation of Safe Routes to School activities related to all of the Six E’s of Safe Routes to School. Providing an inclusive framework that outlines strategies for engaging students with disabilities from the beginning of the planning of your Safe Routes to School program is […]