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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
ALDOT: The public will have an opportunity to have its say about the design of the future space under the bridges of a major interstate that runs through Birmingham. Three sessions – 10 a.m. to noon, noon to 2 p.m. and 5-7 p.m. – will be held on July 17 at the Boutwell Municipal Auditorium. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
43% of children who were in a car crash where someone died were not buckled in properly or were not wearing a seat belt at all. And child fatality rates in deadly car crashes vary widely by state. The results add evidence to the argument that state regulations and public information tactics can affect motor […]
