Benefits Goals: Safety

611 unique benefits found.

Overheight vehicle detection systems on I-10 in Houston reduced bridge hits by 66 percent.
Date Posted: 05/08/2019 | Source Date:
NYC Automated Speed Enforcement pilot sees a 14 percent decline in the overall number of people injured in crashes in school zones where speed cameras were activated.
Date Posted: 01/25/2019 | Source Date:
Proposed data verification method capable of detecting more than 93 percent of all misbehavior attempts by using independent V2V location verification.
Date Posted: 12/31/2018 | Source Date:
An Active Traffic Management System (ATM) on I-66 in Northern Virginia reduced total (all severity), multiple-vehicle (all severity), and rear-end (all severity) crashes, 6 percent, 10 percent, and 11 percent, respectively.
Date Posted: 12/26/2018 | Source Date:
Variable Speed Limits (VSL) cut crash rates by more than half during low visibility on I-77 in Virginia.
Date Posted: 12/26/2018 | Source Date:
In Minneapolis, implementation of a queue warning system resulted in 54 percent decrease in near-crashes and 22 percent decrease in crashes along segment of interstate.
Date Posted: 12/21/2018
Lane departure warning (LDW) and lane departure prevention (LDP) systems were estimated to prevent 59 percent and 67 percent of crashes, respectively, in areas with shoulder widths of at least 3.6 meters.
Date Posted: 10/31/2018 | Source Date:
Autonomous vehicles that can detect imminent rear-end collisions and quickly accelerate using on-demand power from electric motors can reduce whiplash injuries by 40 to 65 percent.
Date Posted: 10/30/2018 | Source Date:
Implementing a collision-avoidance algorithm based on safe distance significantly reduces rear-end collisions in heterogenous fleets compared to other methods.
Date Posted: 10/30/2018 | Source Date:
Front crash detection, lane maintenance, and blind spot detection technologies have the potential to prevent 8,000 two-vehicle crashes with motorcycles per year.
Date Posted: 09/26/2018 | Source Date:
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