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The Federal Highway Administration is funding projects - which aim to protect bridges, roads, ports, rail, and transit from extreme weather - in 37 states the District of Columbia, and the Virgin Islands

$830m in grants to make transportation infrastructure more resilient to climate...

Grants worth almost $830m are being handed out to 80 projects across the US to help make transportation infrastructure more resilient to climate change. The...
As part of April’s National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, FLHSMV, its division of the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), and campaign partners are reminding drivers of the dangers of not paying attention behind the wheel.

A crash occurs every 44 seconds in Florida

Every 44 seconds in Florida, a crash occurs and one in seven is due to a distracted driver according to the Florida Department of...
The report shows that around 10,000 people died on rural, non-motorway roads in the EU in 2022 – accounting for around half of all road deaths.

10,000 killed on rural roads in the EU in 2022

National governments will need to invest significantly to improve the safety of rural roads to meet a collective EU target to cut road deaths...
The partial automation safeguard ratings evaluate driver monitoring, attention reminders, emergency procedures and other aspects of system design. A system may be assigned a rating of good, acceptable, marginal or poor for its safeguards.

First partial driving automation safeguard ratings show ‘worrying’ results

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is introducing a new ratings program to encourage car manufacturers to incorporate more robust safeguards into their...
In the survey, conducted in January, 66 per cent of the 1,220 respondents expressed fear about the technology and 25 per cent said they were uncertain. Fully self-driving vehicles are not yet available for purchase.

Fear of self-driving cars persists says AAA

Two thirds of US drivers fear fully self-driving vehicles, according to a new AAA survey on autonomous vehicles. In the survey, conducted in January, 66...
The campaign ‘Anywhere. Anytime. Anyone’ includes a television advert showing how widespread police efforts are targeting dangerous behaviours like speeding, drink and drug driving, driving without a seatbelt and mobile phone distractions.

Badly behaved drivers targeted in new road safety campaign

Victorian motorists who flout the law are being warned they will be caught, in a new road safety campaign launched by the Transport Accident...
The report shows 18 per cent of all traffic fatalities between 2017 and 2021 were estimated to involve a drowsy driver, accounting for 30,000 deaths.

Drowsy driving leads to more deaths than reported

A new study by the AAA has revealed that deaths due to drowsy driving is ten times higher than reported. The report shows 18 percent...
The Governors Highway Safety Association’s (GHSA) annual Spotlight on Highway Safety report looks at state and national trends in pedestrian traffic deaths from January through June 2023 based on preliminary data provided by State Highway Safety Offices (SHSOs).

Pedestrian deaths in the US fall slightly in first half of...

There were an estimated 3,373 pedestrians killed in the US in the first half of 2023, a four percent decline from the previous year,...
The 2024 Top Truck Bottleneck List measures the level of truck-involved congestion at over 325 locations on the national highway system.

Biggest bottlenecks for truckers in America revealed

The American Transportation Research Institute has released its annual list highlighting the most congested bottlenecks for trucks in America. The 2024 Top Truck Bottleneck List...