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Read the latest news and announcements from traffic safety interest groups and about traffic safety topics here.

Managing the Traffic Impacts of Highway Infrastructure Constructions: A Framework for Construction Planning

  • November 25th, 2025

Highway infrastructure construction projects often necessitate temporary traffic pattern changes, such as lane or road closures, which can impact mobility, safety, and the environment. This report presents a systematic framework and tool designed to assist transportation agencies in evaluating and comparing alternative construction plans. The framework integrates cost analysis to quantify the traffic effects of […]

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Objectives, Components, and Measures of Effective Traffic Safety Public Awareness and Education Efforts 2025

  • November 25th, 2025

Behavioral outreach is a compelling option for improving traffic safety, because it presents a relatively low-cost and broad-based way for highway safety offices to discourage unsafe behaviors and encourage safe behaviors without requiring the same logistics and resources as deploying enforcement or changing infrastructure. Measures of Effective Traffic Safety Public Awareness

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Improving Pedestrian Safety at Night 2025

  • November 25th, 2025

Pedestrian fatalities in the U.S. have increased dramatically since 2010, with most of the rise occurring in dark conditions. NCHRP Web-Only Document 430: Improving Pedestrian Safety at Night, from TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program, is supplemental to NCHRP Research Report 1157: Strategies to Improve Pedestrian Safety at Night: A Guide and summarizes the research from previous […]

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Ford and GM Found a Loophole to Offer the Federal EV Tax Credit to Buyers

  • November 25th, 2025

With the EV tax credit being eliminated, concerns have mounted in the automotive industry that sales of electric cars and trucks will plummet starting in October. After reviewing the legislation that would repeal the credit, and speaking to the Internal Revenue Service about the details, GM and Ford apparently saw an opportunity. The legislation states […]

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Alabama secures $79 million for electric vehicle infrastructure

  • November 25th, 2025

The Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (ADECA) has announced the approval of its new state plan for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Fund by the Federal Highway Administration. The plan, approved on September 9, 2025, outlines the state’s strategy to receive $79,308,285 over the next five years through the federal NEVI formula […]

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2025 Safe Mobility Conference Proceedings

  • November 6th, 2025

The 2025 Safe Mobility Conference was held in Madison, Wisconsin, from April 7 to April 9, in partnership with the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The event brought together a diverse group of transportation stakeholders, including industry experts, academic researchers, and practitioners from governmental agencies, with the goal of fostering collaboration and building partnerships. The conference proceedings […]

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DIESEL SCHOOL BUS ALTERNATIVES

  • November 6th, 2025

EPA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have helped fund nondiesel school buses through four programs—three in EPA and one in DOE. EPA’s programs provide grants, rebates, or loans to help pay for less polluting school buses, such as those fueled by propane or electricity. DOE’s program has offered grants for energy improvements, including […]

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Investigation of Material Requirements for Highway Guardrail Systems

  • November 6th, 2025

Manufacturers and hardware suppliers use significant time and resources to provide guardrail materials according to one state agency’s design and material standards, only to start the process all over again to satisfy another state’s specifications. Such inconsistency often leads to increased fabrication costs for hardware suppliers that are ultimately passed along to transportation agencies. Investigation […]

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Rural/Urban Traffic Fatalities

  • November 6th, 2025

For this fact sheet, urban boundaries are determined by the State highway departments and approved by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), and the areas outside those boundaries are described as rural. The State highway departments use the boundaries decided by the Census Bureau.1 This fact sheet describes rural or urban classification of the trafficway segment […]

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