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Buried Cable Animal Detection System 99 Percent Reliable in Detecting Animal Crossings.
Date Posted: 10/28/2020 | Source Date:
Camera monitoring, paired with driver coaching, was found to reduce frequency of harsh braking events by 17 percent and over-speeding events by 34 percent among heavy goods vehicle drivers.
Date Posted: 10/28/2020 | Source Date:
Preliminary connected vehicle work zone driving simulator experiment revealed that traveler information messages improved mean time-to-collision by approximately 40 percent and lowered mean deceleration to avoid a crash by approximately 19.3 percent.
Date Posted: 10/27/2020 | Source Date:
Without constant driver supervision, Level 2 Active Driving Systems could collide with hazards such as disabled vehicles in 66 percent of cases.
Date Posted: 10/28/2020 | Source Date:
A study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) found that Forward Collision Warning (FCW) was associated with a significant 44% reduction and automatic emergency braking (AEB) with a 41% reduction in the rear-end crash rate of large trucks.
Date Posted: 10/19/2020 | Source Date:
Idaho Storm Warning System Operational Test - Final Report
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The emergency vehicle crash rate fell by 71 percent after deployment of emergency vehicle signal preemption systems in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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In North Carolina, work zones equipped with smart work zone traveler information systems had fewer crashes compared to other work zones on I-95 without the technology.
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An NHTSA modeling study indicated that forward collision warning systems would be 51 percent effective.
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An NHTSA modeling study indicated that lane change/merge crash avoidance systems would be 37 percent effective and road-departure countermeasure systems would be 24 percent effective.
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ITS Deployment Evaluation

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