John Hennessy III,
P.E.
American ports are extremely large contributors to the nation’s GDP and critical components of the country’s global competitiveness. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed by Congress several years ago was designed to support all types of infrastructure upgrades, and ports were a primary focus. Billions were allocated for port upgrades and expansions, which has spurred massive […]
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If we want more people to bike, we have to build better bike infrastructure, and the good news is that this is starting to happen here in the US, believe it or not. But we need to make this happen faster.
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In 2017 traffic deaths hit a 25 year high of 40,000 – 6,000 of those killed were pedestrians. Cities across the country are trying to reduce traffic fatalities with safety campaigns. But one of the keys to the whole problem might be in the very design of our streets. Cheddar explains…
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This video explains The Results Document, a document that shows the performance of the enterprise of MoDOT.
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What this report shows is that our streets aren’t getting safer. Even more so, while traffic deaths impact every community in the United States, states and metropolitan areas across the southern continental United States, older adults, people of color, and people walking in low-income communities bear a higher share of this harm.
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Speeding-related fatalities account for a considerable proportion of U.S. road trauma, historically comprising approximately one-third of total fatalities. Nationally, there were 9,717 speeding-related fatalities in 2017 – about 26% of the total, though the proportion of speeding crashes differs dramatically across the states. Speeding-related fatalities are associated with a number of factors, including driver characteristics, risky behaviors such as alcohol-impaired driving, marijuana-impaired driving or failure to buckle up, and environmental factors such as the built environment and driving conditions.
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Vintage Michigan Department of Transportation (then called the Michigan State Highway Department) film from 1938 discussing the innovations of the time to increase roadway safety.
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The PennDOT Innovations Challenge is a statewide competition that challenges teams of students in ninth through 12th grade to use their problem-solving, creative, and strategic-thinking abilities to solve real-world transportation challenges.
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The Dutch capital Amsterdam is widely known for being bike-friendly. But it wasn’t always a model cycling city. Public outrage at rising traffic casualties in the Seventies caused city planners to rethink their approach to urban design. Video by Gloria Kurnik.
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By eliminating left turns across oncoming traffic and nearly eliminating head-on collisions, roundabouts reduce crashes by 40%, reduce crashes with injuries by 75%, and reduce fatal crashes down to nearly nothing.
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