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Expect agency's information technology (IT) operations and maintenance budget to increase in order to train qualified IT staff to maintain a new suite of hardware and software.
Content Type: Lesson | Date Posted: 01/02/2013 | Source Date:
Casualty benefits from advanced emergency braking systems in passenger vehicles have potential benefit-to-cost ratios ranging from 0.07 to 2.78.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 01/02/2013 | Source Date:
Forward collision warning systems have potential to prevent 23.8 percent of crashes involving large trucks.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 12/07/2012 | Source Date:
Field data collected over the last two decades show variable speed limit (VSL) systems can reduce crash potential by 8 to 30 percent.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 12/07/2012 | Source Date:
The Kansas City Scout program used ramp meters to improve safety on a seven mile section of I-435; before and after data indicated that ramp meters decreased crashes by 64 percent.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 11/01/2012 | Source Date:
Initial findings from a ramp meter evaluation in Kansas City were consistent with findings in other cities that show ramp metering can reduce crashes by 26 to 50 percent.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 11/01/2012 | Source Date:
Collisions on I-5 in Washington State have been reduced by 65-75 percent in a 7.5 mile corridor where an active traffic management system was deployed.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 10/31/2012 | Source Date:
Conversion of an HOV lane to a HOT lane in Washington State allowed for a 3 to 19 percent increase in speeds in general purpose lanes despite a 2 to 3 percent increase in volumes in the general lanes.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 10/31/2012 | Source Date:
In 2009, the Washington State DOT Incident Response Team was able to clear 98 percent of incidents in under an hour and nearly three quarters in less than 15 minutes.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 10/31/2012 | Source Date:
An infrared detection system deployed in a mobile van correctly identified vehicles that need to be taken off the road 44 percent of the time; an improvement over using random selection alone.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 10/02/2012 | Source Date:
ITS Deployment Evaluation

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