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An early crop of advanced crash avoidance technologies includes some clear success stories when it comes to preventing crashes, insurance claim analyses show. Forward collision avoidance systems, particularly those that can brake autonomously, along with adaptive headlights, which shift direction as the driver steers, show the biggest crash reductions in the studies by the Highway […]
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 […]
This guide provides examples of opportunities for integrating the AASHTO Highway Safety Manual into the project development process. This includes integrating methods from the Highway Safety Manual into planning, alternatives development and analysis, design, operations, and maintenance. The guide provides a description of each of these steps in the project development process, and then provides a discussion of the […]
Guangqing Chi, Timothy E. McClure, & David B. Brown Objective: The price of gasoline has been found to be negatively associated with traffic crashes in a limited number of studies. However, most of the studies have focused either on fatal crashes only or on all crashes but measured over a very short time period. In […]
As the weather warms and schools break for spring and summer, traffic swells along Alabama’s most popular highways, often resulting in more crashes, injuries, and fatalities. This year, the Alabama Department of Public Safety and other law enforcement agencies across the state say they’ll be out in full force along some of the state’s busiest […]
The price of gasoline has been found to be negatively associated with traffic crashes in a limited number of studies. However, most of the studies have focused either on fatal crashes only or on all crashes but measured over a very short time period. In this study, we examine gasoline price effects on all traffic […]
This report models the association between the proximity of a fatal crash to a Level 1 or 2 trauma center and the crash scene mortality of the driver in the fatal crash. It does so by comparing drivers who died at the scene of the crash with other injured drivers who survived the crash and […]
In October 2009, U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) signed a settlement agreement with the Teamsters Union, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety and Public Citizen in attempt to end the latest round of litigation over the hours of service (HOS) regulations for truck drivers. As a condition of the settlement, DOT officials agreed to ‘review […]
AUBURN, AL (WSFA) – A single-vehicle crash is responsible for the death of one person and the injuries of two others along Interstate 85. The crash happened near the 48 mile marker just outside of Auburn around 10:00am Monday.