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The Alabama Department of Public Safety teamed with the University of Alabama Center for Advanced Public Safety (CAPS) to develop eCrash, the nation’s first totally paperless crash reporting system. Except for the reports provided to those involved in crashes, all other aspects of eCrash are paperless, from the officers’ entry of the data (in many […]
Most statistical information needs can be obtained online from the new CARE Dashboard, developed by the University of Alabama Center for Advanced Public Safety (CAPS). Use the tutorials available here to learn about the data and the CARE Dashboard. Details on the CARE software are also available on the CARE page of the CAPS website. […]
The primary goals of Safe Home Alabama III were to increase your knowledge of efforts to reduce roadway related fatalities and serious injuries in Alabama, to solicit your feedback on the second edition of the Alabama Strategic Highway Safety plan, and to enlist support for the Toward Zero Deaths Safe Driving Revolution, so that we […]
This document presents the Alabama Traffic Safety Information Systems (TSIS) Strategic Plan for the 2014-2019 time period, or planning horizon. It begins by providing context in terms of the overall background and history of the planning process over the past decade. Alabama’s Traffic Safety Information System (TSIS) components include all of the hardware, software and […]
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 […]
In spite of warnings from manufacturers, federal agencies, and consumer and safety advocates that all terrain vehicles (ATVs) are unsafe on roadways, for several years an increasing number of states have passed laws allowing ATVs on public roads. The majority of ATV deaths take place on these roads and action is needed to reverse this […]
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 […]
Tuscaloosa News: Starting Monday, tickets will be issued for red-light violations captured by cameras at three new intersections across the city.
Over 30,000 people are killed in motor vehicle crashes each year in the United States. In 2013, crash deaths resulted in $44 billion in medical and work loss costs in addition to the immeasurable burden on the victims’ families and friends. These fact sheets highlight the cost of deaths from motor vehicle crashes and show […]
