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A warning for drivers: Slow down! The Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs is teaming up with local law enforcement offices across Alabama and the Southeast July 16 through the 22 for a campaign to reduce the number of crashes, injuries, and fatalities caused by driving at excessive speeds. Speed is the number one […]
Motor vehicles are the primary mode of transportation for most of us, and often an indispensable part of our lives. But what would happen if your vehicle suddenly disappeared? 765,484 motor vehicles were stolen in 2016, with the cost of stolen vehicles pegged at more than $5.9 billion.
Lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing Wednesday on the dangers of drug-impaired driving. There is growing concern in Congress over the issue as data from the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) and the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility find that accidents from drugged driving have been on the rise over […]
Alabamians need to pump the brakes after a national research firm says the state ranks third in the country in relation to speeding-related vehicle fatalities. The study found that there are 6.52 speeding-related deaths per 100,000 residents in Alabama. In 2016, the state saw 317 such deaths. Compounding the speeding issue is a major trooper shortage […]
Sixty-eight percent of people say they need a lot of convincing to believe in the dangers of texting and driving. The Society for Risk Analysis reports that people who text and drive are six times more likely to be involved in a car accident. However, a study published in Risk Analysis: An International Journal found […]
Two recent polls conducted by insurance firm Esurance indicate that even though a large percentage of motorists remain uninterested in giving control of the steering wheel over to self-driving or connected and autonomous vehicles – called CAVs for short – the potential saving of doing so could amount to several thousand dollars per year, along […]
What does your future commute look like? Will you be taking a self-driving car, a solo-wheel, the hyperloop? What about a self driving bike? Professor Tyler Folsom and his students at the University of Washington Bothell are spearheading a grassroots effort to test and develop lighter, more affordable, personal rapid transit: self-driving bikes. Read the […]
We love to celebrate the 4th of July with family, friends, food, and fireworks, but all too often the festivities turn tragic on the nation’s roads. The fact is, this iconic American holiday is also one of the deadliest holidays of the year due to drunk-driving crashes. Over the 4th of July holiday period in […]
Transportation Radio: Andrew P. Tarko, Professor of Civil Engineering, Director of the Center for Road Safety, Purdue University and Franz Loewenherz, a principal transportation planner for the City of Bellevue, Washington, discuss surrogate measures of safety and how they help Vision Zero strategies in the July edition of the ITE Talks Transportation podcast.
The overall objectives of this research were to identify and explore alternative safety data sources and analysis perspectives, and 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. The project team executed the […]
