Benefits Goals: Safety

593 unique benefits found.

Rear-visibility systems are expected to prevent over one thousand backover injuries each year.
Date Posted: 06/30/2014 | Source Date:
In-vehicle warning systems that provide drivers with auditory alerts of approaching red-light running vehicles can reduce collisions by 75 percent.
Date Posted: 06/30/2014 | Source Date:
Large trucks with blind spot warning systems have approximately 50 percent fewer safety-critical events.
Date Posted: 05/15/2014 | Source Date:
Variable advisory speed limit systems reduce variability in speeds and improve safety at congested work zones.
Date Posted: 04/29/2014 | Source Date:
Speed enforcement cameras can reduce injury crashes by 20 percent.
Date Posted: 03/25/2014 | Source Date:
Reliable deer detection warning systems can reduce deer-vehicle collisions by 65 percent.
Date Posted: 03/25/2014 | Source Date:
Speeding has dropped 65 percent in Chicago neighborhoods where Automated Speed Enforcement systems have been installed.
Date Posted: 02/20/2014 | Source Date:
Using a Speed Management System for winter maintenance resulted in zero (100 percent reduction) winter weather related accidents in one section of highway in Snowmass Canyon.
Date Posted: 02/20/2014 | Source Date:
A photo-radar enforcement van reduced the number of speeding vehicles in a work zone by 24 percent.
Date Posted: 02/20/2014 | Source Date:
Icy Curve Warning Systems in California reduced the number of annual crashes by 18 percent, and the system was estimated to provide safety benefits of $1.7 million dollars per winter season.
Date Posted: 01/28/2014 | Source Date:
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