Latest Benefits Updates

HAZMAT safety and security technologies can have tremendous societal cost savings well beyond the break even point for benefits and costs.
Date Posted: 02/06/2006 | Source Date:
HAZMAT safety and security technologies can reduce the potential for terrorist consequences by approximately 36 percent.
Date Posted: 02/06/2006 | Source Date:
During the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, a survey about the CommuterLink Web site showed that 98 percent of visitors and 97 percent of residents who used the Web site said it worked well for them
Date Posted: 01/31/2006 | Source Date:
A 1999 FHWA study suggested that lane departure warning systems have the potential to reduce road departure crashes by 10 percent for passenger vehicles and 30 percent for heavy trucks.
Date Posted: 01/27/2006 | Source Date:
A transit signal priority system in Eastleigh, England reduced bus delay by 9 seconds/vehicle/intersection and increased delay for other traffic by 2.2 seconds/vehicle/intersection.
Date Posted: 12/13/2005 | Source Date:
A transit signal priority system in Southampton, England reduced bus delay by 9.5 seconds/vehicle/intersection and increased delay for other traffic by 3.8 seconds/vehicle/intersection.
Date Posted: 12/13/2005 | Source Date:
In the Washington DC metropolitan area, drivers who use route-specific travel time information instead of wide-area traffic advisories can improve on-time performance by 5 to 13 percent.
Date Posted: 11/29/2005 | Source Date:
In Salt Lake Valley, Utah a ramp metering study showed that with an 8 second metering cycle, mainline peak period delay decreased by 36 percent, or 54 seconds per vehicle.
Date Posted: 11/29/2005 | Source Date:
In Utah, incident management teams in Salt Lake Valley area decreased incident duration by approximately 20 minutes per incident on three major interstates.
Date Posted: 11/29/2005 | Source Date:
In London, an automatic fog detection system that used freeway dynamic message signs to warn drivers of fog reduced traffic speeds by an average of 1.8 mi/h.
Date Posted: 09/30/2005 | Source Date:
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