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The Road to Zero: A Vision for Achieving Zero Roadway Deaths by 2050

Tuesday, May 1st, 2018

Imagine yourself in 2050, the first year in which not a single person in America died in a traffic crash. How can that be? The United States’ population has exceeded 400 million. The demand for mobility has increased with the population and improved access to transportation, especially for groups that previously had limited mobility options. It’s thanks to some amazing strides we’ve made since the 2010s in several different areas. Nearly all vehicles, including motorcycles, now have high levels of vehicle automation, whether they are self-driving or human-driven. Almost all cars now brake automatically, warn drivers about objects in their blind spots, park themselves, adjust their speed, and stay in their lanes. While crashes still happen, there are many fewer of them.

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Tags: Crashes, RAND Corporation, Road to Zero, Roadway Deaths, Safe System, safety, safety culture, Toward Zero Deaths National Strategy
Posted in Equity, Infra Views, National, Policy, Roads

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Reducing Crashes on Louisiana Roads

Monday, November 11th, 2013

Figure 1 Highway fatality rate by year [5]

LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT
LOUISIANA TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH CENTER
To improve highway safety, DOTD has developed a Louisiana Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) aimed at reducing fatal and severe injury crashes on Louisiana roadways. The goal of Louisiana SHSP is to reach Destination Zero Deaths on Louisiana roadways, which calls to cut the fatalities by half by 2030.

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Tags: Accidents, Crashes, LA, La DOTD, Louisiana, Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, Louisiana Transportation Research Center, LTRC
Posted in Highway, Infra Views, Local, Roads

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The Enforcement Gap: How the NYPD Ignores What’s Killing New Yorkers

Wednesday, October 16th, 2013

In order to reduce traffic deaths and injuries, the Police Department must increase enforcement of the most dangerous traffic violations, in particular speeding and failure to yield, as opposed to those violations which do not endanger public safety, such as defective headlights and excessive window tint.

TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES
THE NEW YORK POLICE DEPARTMENT’S (NYPD) STATED GOAL IN THE MAYOR’S MANAGEMENT REPORT IS TO “REDUCE THE INCIDENTS OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS, INJURIES AND FATALITIES.” This is a just and admirable aim, yet the NYPD is not doing everything it can to achieve it because the department ignores its own traffic safety data and chooses not to enforce the traffic violations that are the most harmful to New Yorkers. This is the enforcement gap.

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Tags: Crashes, Law Enforcement, New York, New York City, New York Police Department, NY, NYC, NYPD, Pedestrian, Traffic
Posted in Infra Views, Local, Policy, Urban Planning

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Mitigating Run-Off-Road Crashes

Wednesday, August 28th, 2013

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS INSTITUTE
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
While substantial steps have been taken to flatten curves, widen roads/shoulders, impose barriers, and remove collision-prone objects, ROR crashes consistently account for nearly half of all fatal crashes. The introduction of rumble strips to notify drivers of an impending lane departure has spurred other methods of notifying and preventing lane departures via in-vehicle systems (e.g. auditory/visual warnings and haptic/tactile alerts). While these Lane Departure Warning Systems (LDWS) show some promise in successfully warning drivers of impending lane departures, their ability to appropriately capture attention, convey information, and guide an appropriate response must still be refined to consistently prevent ROR crashes.

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Tags: Accidents, Crashes, Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute, ITS, Minnesota, MN, University of Minnesota
Posted in Highway, Infra Views, Roads

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Crashes Vs. Congestion Report

Friday, November 25th, 2011

CAMBRIDGE SYSTEMATICS
When American motorists talk about transportation problems, they generally key in on traffic. Snarled highways, epic commutes, and gridlocked business and commercial districts mar our suburban existence, weighing heavily upon our elected leaders, our policymakers, and our families. Yet a more costly problem needs to be addressed on America’s roads: motor vehicle crashes. In 2009, traffic crashes killed 33,808 people in the United States – about 93 deaths per day, and nearly four every hour.

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Tags: AAA, Cambridge Systematics, Congestion, Crashes, Roads
Posted in Congestion, Infra Views, Roads, Transit

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