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Understanding the Causative, Precipitating & Predisposing Factors in Rural Two-Lane Crashes

  • July 1st, 2018

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 […]

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Aggressive Driving Study

  • June 27th, 2018

Major findings: Primary Contributing Circumstance: Following Too Close is by far the greatest primary contributing factor in the AD involved subset of crashes, followed by Improper Lane Change/Use, Driving too fast for Conditions, and Ran Traffic Signal. When Over Speed Limit is combined with Driving Too Fast for Conditions, these combined speed related items become […]

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Changing Driving Laws to Support Automated Vehicles

  • June 19th, 2018

This policy paper sets out recommendations for legislative reform to: provide clarity about the situations when an automated driving system (ADS), rather than a human driver, may drive a vehicle; ensure there is a legal entity that can be held responsible for the operation of the automated driving system; establish any new legal obligations that […]

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Safer Roads with Automated Vehicles?

  • June 12th, 2018

This report examines how increasing automation of cars and trucks could affect road safety and which security vulnerabilities will need to be addressed with the rise of self-driving vehicles. The report applies the principles of the “Safe System”, which is at the forefront of current thinking about road safety, to the wider discussion on vehicle […]

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FHWA Launches Series of National Meetings on Automated Vehicles

  • June 7th, 2018

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today launched a series of meetings with key stakeholders to discuss the ramifications of automated vehicles on U.S. roads. The “national dialogue” meetings are being held across the country to engage a diverse group of stakeholders from industry and the public sector to understand the key […]

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2017 Drivers License Age Ranges Report

  • June 4th, 2018

The Department of Public Safety has released their drivers’ license age ranges report for 2017. This report gives the number of drivers by age and race. This report can be used in many different ways, one example being if someone wants to compare crashes by age, this report gives how many drivers are in each […]

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Marijuana, Opioids Most Common Drugs Found in Fatally-Injured Drivers

Marijuana, Opioids Most Common Drugs Found in Fatally-Injured Drivers

  • May 31st, 2018

As Drugged Driving Problem Grows, Impaired Driving Messages Must Expand  WASHINGTON, DC – A new report from the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) finds that in 2016, 44% of fatally-injured drivers with known results tested positive for drugs, up from 28% just 10 years prior. More than half of these drivers had marijuana, opioids, or a combination […]

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