Benefits Goals: Safety

613 unique benefits found.

Total crashes per mile per year decreased by 28.84 percent on a corridor operating under SCATS adaptive signal control in Oakland County, Michigan.
Date Posted: 03/05/2013 | Source Date:
Vehicle speeds decreased significantly in work zones where DMSs were used to inform drivers upstream.
Date Posted: 03/05/2013 | Source Date:
Active and passive in-vehicle safety technologies are expected to decrease fatalities up to 16 percent.
Date Posted: 03/05/2013 | Source Date:
Steering responsive headlight technology can improve driver visibility on inside curves and reduce "bodily injury liability" claims by 17 percent.
Date Posted: 01/31/2013 | Source Date:
Audible "slow traffic ahead" alerts can improve drivers' situational awareness and increase safety on freeways.
Date Posted: 01/31/2013 | Source Date:
In Michigan, 108 volunteers who drove 16 vehicles equipped with crash warning systems indicated the blind-spot detection component of the lane-change/merge crash warning system was the most useful and satisfying aspect of the integrated system.
Date Posted: 01/31/2013 | Source Date:
In Michigan, 8 of 108 volunteers who drove light vehicles equipped with an integrated crash warning system indicated the system prevented them from having a crash.
Date Posted: 01/31/2013 | Source Date:
A 33 percent mean reduction in risky driving behaviors was observed in a test involving 191 service drivers.
Date Posted: 01/31/2013 | Source Date:
NHTSA estimates that annual fatalities in backover crashes would be reduced by 95 to 112 fatalities and annual injuries by 7,072 to 8,374 injuries if all vehicles were equipped with rearview cameras.
Date Posted: 01/03/2013 | Source Date:
In Hennepin County, MN, a public survey reported nearly 80 percent of respondents had improved awareness of approaching traffic after the installation of the intersection warning system.
Date Posted: 01/03/2013 | Source Date:
ITS Deployment Evaluation

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