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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:
Pedestrian Crash Avoidance/Mitigation Systems can reduce up to 24 percent of annual vehicle-pedestrian crashes where fatalities are involved.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 09/25/2017 | Source Date:
Forward collision warning (FCW) alone, low-speed autonomous emergency braking (AEB), and FCW combined with AEB that operates at highway speeds reduced rear-end striking crash involvement rates by 27 percent, 43 percent, and 50 percent, respectively.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 08/30/2017 | Source Date:
Arbitrate driver warnings generated by in-vehicle systems to prevent confusion in cases where multiple warnings are presented in multiple threat scenarios.
Content Type: Lesson | Date Posted: 08/30/2017 | Source Date:
Crash statistics show that lane departure warning systems have reduced all relevant crashes by 11 percent, and all relevant injury crashes by 21 percent, controlling for driver demographics.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 08/28/2017 | Source Date:
Truck-mounted radar speed signs were effective in reducing traffic speeds by 5 to 23 percent versus reductions of 4 to 8 percent in work zones without them.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 08/28/2017 | Source Date:
Alternating blank out signs installed at rail crossings near Denver resulted in a 61.3 percent reduction in crashes.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 07/31/2017 | Source Date:
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