Benefits Goals: Safety

611 unique benefits found.

Speed photo-radar enforcement decreased average car speeds in work zones up to 7.9 mi/hr in median lanes and 7.7 mi/hr in shoulder lanes at highway work zones, being equally as effective as the presence of police patrols with emergency lights off.
Date Posted: 10/02/2013 | Source Date:
Commercial trucks without speed limiters had a significantly higher crash rate (approximately 200 percent) compared to trucks equipped with speed limiters.
Date Posted: 09/17/2013 | Source Date:
Electronic Stability Control (ESC) systems can reduce the risk of fatal crashes by 33 percent.
Date Posted: 08/19/2013 | Source Date:
Korean study finds Automatic Crash Information Notification Systems would reduce freeway fatalities by 11.8 to 18.1 percent.
Date Posted: 08/19/2013 | Source Date:
In North Carolina, Portable Traffic-Monitoring Devices found to provide a cost-effective and safe means of recording speed and traffic counts in work zones.
Date Posted: 08/19/2013 | Source Date:
The implementation of ramp metering in Kansas City increased corridor throughput by as much as 20 percent and improved incident clearance by an average of four minutes, with these benefits remaining consistent in the long term.
Date Posted: 07/15/2013 | Source Date:
Benefits from an initial HOT lanes deployment in Minneapolis St. Paul were maintained in the long term, while a system expansion resulted in fewer benefits, but at a much cheaper cost.
Date Posted: 07/15/2013 | Source Date:
In Florida, camera-based systems with a regular angle lens reduced 43 percent of blind zones and wide-angle camera systems entirely eliminated blind zones during controlled tests among 28 transit bus drivers.
Date Posted: 07/12/2013 | Source Date:
HAWK pedestrian beacon shows 69 percent reduction in crashes involving pedestrians.
Date Posted: 06/03/2013 | Source Date:
Full deployment of mobility applications may be capable of eliminating more than 1/3rd of the travel delay that is caused by congestion.
Date Posted: 06/03/2013 | Source Date:
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