Latest Benefits Updates

Officer-generated crash reports received electronically into the statewide crash database increased to 68 percent from 47 percent as a result of making data reporting and analysis tools available to local law enforcing agencies.
Date Posted: 11/13/2013 | Source Date:
The benefits of multidisciplinary TIM operations yielded an annual reduction in average incident duration of 46 minutes and in secondary crashes of 69 percent in Atlanta Georgia.
Date Posted: 10/03/2013 | Source Date:
The benefits of multidisciplinary TIM operations yielded an annual reduction in incident duration of 28.6 percent and in vehicle-hours of delay of approximately 30 million in Maryland.
Date Posted: 10/03/2013 | Source Date:
For the industry data sample provided in this analysis, RSC technology is more effective than ESC technology at preventing rollover, jackknife, and tow/stuck crashes, thus providing greater benefit to society and carriers with markedly lower installa
Date Posted: 10/03/2013 | Source Date:
Annual boardings for the I-85 Xpress bus service increased seven percent, more than twice as fast as Xpress bus services in other areas of the city after HOT lanes were implemented to address congestion on I-85 in Atlanta.
Date Posted: 10/02/2013 | Source Date:
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:
In some situations, up to seventy five percent of all days can be missing data at urban locations when calculating annual average daily traffic statistics with archived ITS data.
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:
Decision Support System scenarios modeled on the ICM Corridor in Dallas Texas show travel time savings of 9 percent on arterials when vehicles divert from the freeway.
Date Posted: 09/17/2013 | Source Date:
Break even point calculated for an incident response program: reducing 30 seconds per incident results in $711,300 reduction in costs of delay, equivalent to the cost of operating the incident response program for a year.
Date Posted: 09/17/2013 | Source Date:
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