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A modeling effort found that forward collision avoidance systems can prevent or mitigate up to 31 percent of all collisions.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 10/18/2017 | Source Date:
After deployment of a low-speed collision avoidance system on the Volvo XC60 and S60, insurance claim frequency decreased by 15 and 16 percent, respectively, compared to similar vehicles.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 10/18/2017 | Source Date:
Use truck-mounted radar speed signs to help reduce vehicle speeds through continuously moving and intermittent mobile work operations.
Content Type: Lesson | Date Posted: 10/09/2017 | Source Date:
Deploying right-turn restrictions as an active traffic management strategy can improve safety and efficiency at intersections with unconventional layouts, right-turn overlaps, emergency vehicle conflict concerns, and high pedestrian volumes.
Content Type: Lesson | Date Posted: 10/09/2017 | Source Date:
Use in-vehicle audible alerts in addition to visual safety alerts to improve speed limit compliance.
Content Type: Lesson | Date Posted: 10/09/2017 | Source Date:
Use Bluetooth sensors to improve detection of traffic stoppages in work zones where other non-intrusive portable traffic speed sensors may only report average speeds.
Content Type: Lesson | Date Posted: 10/09/2017 | Source Date:
Familiarize travelers with active traffic management applications and use visible police presence when initiating ATM operations to improve pedestrian safety.
Content Type: Lesson | Date Posted: 10/09/2017 | Source Date:
Avoid using blank messages on dynamic message signs (DMS) including dashes for travel time applications as drivers may not understand these signs or assume they are broken.
Content Type: Lesson | Date Posted: 09/26/2017 | Source Date:
Implement location-based filtering to modify threat assessments or alerts where drivers choose not to respond to repeated in-vehicle warnings.
Content Type: Lesson | Date Posted: 09/26/2017 | Source Date:
Maintain active communications regardless of system states, faults, or emergency kill switches to ensure the safety and function of cooperative adaptive cruise control truck platoons.
Content Type: Lesson | Date Posted: 09/26/2017 | Source Date:
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