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Electric vehicles have attracted widespread interest because of their ability to reduce energy consumption and emissions. Governments and manufacturers continue to make new commitments for electric vehicle sales, and the cost of manufacturing electric vehicles continues to fall, making them more competitive with internal combustion vehicles. Advances in lithium-ion battery technologies have been key to […]
New Requirements Under 23 CFR Part 924 Why is FHWA making this change? Provide consistency with MAP-21 and the FAST Act Implement actions required by the Secretary in MAP-21 Clarify existing program requirements
MIRE, the Model Inventory of Roadway Elements, is a recommended listing of roadway inventory and traffic elements critical to safety management. MIRE is intended as a guideline to help transportation agencies improve their roadway and traffic data inventories. It provides a basis for a standard of what can be considered a good/robust data inventory and […]
Ongoing innovations in automated and connected road vehicles create a path of radical transformation of personal mobility, the automotive industry, trucking, public transit, the taxi industry, urban planning, transportation infrastructure, jobs, vehicle ownership, and other physical and social aspects of our built world and daily lives. In considering automated vehicle (AV) deployments and their cost, […]
This report presents two ways to analyze accidents at highway rail grade crossings: a microscopic approach that looks at individual accidents at a crossing or a group of crossings, and a macroscopic approach to identify correlations between accident counts at crossings and crossing characteristics. The outcome of the microscopic approach is a data-driven dynamic tree […]
The purpose of the Impaired Driving Strategic Plan (IDSP) is to provide overall guidance to all agencies and private groups who are involved with various aspects of reducing the problems caused by ID. Specifically, the Alabama Impaired Driving Prevention Council (AIDPC) was formed not only to develop this plan but to guide its implementation and […]
Two Alabama State troopers both faced close calls in separate accidents after their patrol vehicles were struck while being parked on the side of the road. Both troopers were not seriously injured. A tractor trailer plowed into the vehicle of trooper Ricky Thomas February 14t at three in the morning near the McFarland Boulevard exit […]
More than 6,200 Pedestrians Killed on U.S. Roads Last Year WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new report from the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) projects that 6,227 pedestrian fatalities occurred in 2018, the highest number in nearly three decades. States were asked to report pedestrian fatalities for the first six months of 2018. After adjusting this raw data […]
St Patrick’s Day is one of the deadliest holidays on our nation’s roads. During the 2013-2017 St Patrick’s Day holiday period (6 pm March 16 to 5:59 am March 18), 234 lives were lost due to drunk-driving crashes. Buzzed Driving is Drunk Driving In 2017, drunk driving killed more than 10,000 people in our country, […]
For years, Apple has gone to lengths to keep its self-driving endeavors under wraps. On Wednesday, the tech giant moved its autonomous-vehicle program into the spotlight. Apple submitted documents to NHTSA, the nation’s top auto safety regulator, that describe the nature of the company’s testing program, its approach to safety and a broad outline of […]
