Latest Benefits Updates

The safety service patrol (SSP) in Hampton Roads, Virginia decreased the average incident duration by 70.7 percent.
Date Posted: 05/10/2011 | Source Date:
Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) use shows benefit-cost ratios ranging from 1.33 to 8.67.
Date Posted: 05/06/2011 | Source Date:
Northern Virginia's freeway safety service patrol (SSP) had an estimated annual savings of $6.49 million in motorist delay and fuel consumption resulting in a benefit-cost ratio of 5.4:1.
Date Posted: 05/06/2011 | Source Date:
Weather Notification System issues on time alerts 88.9 percent of time, but message coverage remains incomplete.
Date Posted: 05/06/2011 | Source Date:
An enhanced Automatic Collision Notification System enables three quarters (75.9 percent) of injured occupants to be correctly identified as seriously injured, by using only data automatically collected and transmitted by the vehicles.
Date Posted: 05/06/2011 | Source Date:
Implementing an enhanced Automatic Collision Notification (ACN) system in all passenger vehicles in the US could help improve outcomes for over 15,200 drivers each year involved in moderate to high severity crashes.
Date Posted: 05/06/2011 | Source Date:
Mandatory dynamic automatic controlling Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) could reduce fatal crashes over the entire road network by more than 50 percent, whereas static informing ISA could still give a reduction of almost 20 percent.
Date Posted: 05/06/2011 | Source Date:
The average duration of incidents assisted by the Northern Virginia (NOVA) Safety Service Patrol (SSP) was 17.3 percent shorter than the duration for matching incidents without NOVA SSP assistance.
Date Posted: 05/06/2011 | Source Date:
The St. Louis Motorist Assist program had a benefit-cost ratio of 38.25:1, with annual secondary crashes lowered by 1,082 and annual congestion costs lowered by $1,130,000.
Date Posted: 04/26/2011 | Source Date:
An Arterial Service Patrol deployed during the re-construction of I-64 in St. Louis had a benefit-cost ratio of 8.3:1, lowered secondary crashes by 183 per year, and reduced annual congestion costs by $1,034,000.
Date Posted: 04/26/2011 | Source Date:
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