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Following the recent nerve agents poisonings in the United Kingdom, the emergency response community has requested information and advice to enhance preparedness. “Nerve Agent Information for Emergency Medical Services and Hospitals” serves as a refresher on standard protocols for recognizing, treating, and protecting oneself from nerve agent exposures. The document also compares and contrasts the […]
Drug-impaired driving is a problem on America’s highways. Like drunk driving, drugged driving is impaired driving, which means it is dangerous and illegal in all 50 States, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C. Whether the drug is legally prescribed or illegal, driving while drug-impaired poses a threat to the driver, vehicle passengers, and other road users. […]
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are defined by the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) as “the integration of advanced communication technologies into the transportation technologies and vehicles. Intelligent transportation systems encompass a broad range of wireless and wire line communications-based information and electronics technologies.” ITS planning and deployment involves the design and implementation of this […]
The Fatal Crash Comparison (2016 vs 2014) study has been updated to include the new recommendations page at the top of the power point presentation.
The first National Roundabout Week will take place the third week of September (17th – 21st). The purpose of NRW will be to raise awareness about roundabouts and to provide a national platform to share the successes that state, local and tribal transportation agencies have had with them. FHWA will be using their social media […]
This issue includes: Upcoming Safety Training FTA Drug Abuse Awareness Video Now Available FTA to Host SMS for Executives Training at APTA Annual Meeting SSO and RTA Safety Personnel to Convene for October Training Workshop Have a PTASP Question? Email PTASP_QA@dot.gov Transit Advisory Committee for Safety Re-Established through New Chapter TSO Profile Upcoming Speaking Events
The Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (IHSDM) is a suite of software analysis tools used to evaluate the safety and operational effects of geometric design decisions on highways.
The overall objectives of this study were to: Identify and explore alternative safety data sources and analysis perspectives 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.
This report documents the results and conclusions of an initial experiment that examined human factors issues in the use of adaptive cruise control (ACC) and a hypothetical cooperative ACC (CACC), which is an ACC system enhanced with vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications to share information on speed, brake position, and distance between vehicles.
Even as self-driving technology avoids crashes, imperfect human operators will still share the road and share the wheel. WASHINGTON, DC – Autonomous vehicles (AVs) promise to bring many mobility benefits and reduce traffic crashes enormously, as the federal government notes 94% of crashes are estimated to involve driver error. However, there will continue to be crashes, […]
