Search

 

Knowledge Center

Knowledge Center - Safety
 
 

 To contribute a resource, contact Charlie Tennyson at ctennyson@itsa.org.

Technical Reports
  • ITS Safety and Mobility Solutions – Improving Travel Through America’s Work Zones, American Traffic Safety Services Association - PDF
  • Coordinating, Planning and Managing the Effects of Roadway Construction with Technology, U.S. Department of Transportation - PDF
  • Homeland Security and ITS, ITS America - PDF
  • Street Smarts: How Intelligent Transportation Systems Save Money, Lives and the Environment, ACS - PDF

 

White Papers & Fact Sheets

  • A Better Way to Fix Our National Bridge Problem, LifeSpan Technologies - PDF
  • Traffic Safety Facts: Older Drivers (2007), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - PDF  
Driver Distraction
  • A Decrease in Brain Activation Associated with Driving When Listening to Someone Speak - Carnegie Mellon University - 2007 - PDF
  • Driver Distraction in Commercial Vehicle Operations - Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, U.S. DOT - 2009 - PDF
  • A Comparison of the Cell Phone Driver and the Drunk Driver - University of Utah - 2004 - PDF
  • Hand-Held Cellphone Laws and Collision Claim Frequencies - Highway Loss Data Institute - 2009 - PDF
  • National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Survey: Report to Congress - National Highway Traffic Safety Association, U.S. DOT - 2008 - PDF
Links
  • ITS America's Safety Forum - The Safety Forum focuses on advancements in research and deployment of ITS safety systems and the nation’s interest in safety and security. It does so by promoting demonstration and deployment of promising systems and collaboratively supporting a comprehensive, research-based view of national needs for new solutions, synthesizing lessons learned, and supporting the development of national deployment policies and technological standards.
  • IntelliDrive(SM) - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT’s) IntelliDriveSM program is focused on advancing connectivity among vehicles and roadway infrastructure in order to significantly improve the safety and mobility of the U.S. transportation system. The program is working toward a future vision where vehicles and infrastructure are connected to enable crashless vehicles, and access to real-time data on the status of both vehicles and the roadway transforms transportation system management and operations to dramatically improve performance
    • U.S. DOT Presentation - Achieving the Vision: From VII to IntelliDriveSM - PPT