TRB Special Report 300 - Achieving Traffic Safety Goals in the United States

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Traffic Safety ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Report

United States Climate Change Law

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B. Gerrard
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Endangered Species ◽  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Marine Species ◽  
The United States ◽  
Highway Traffic ◽  
National Highway Traffic Safety

This chapter presents an overview of climate change law in the United States, given the global impact of its domestic and international climate change policies. It traces the evolution of US climate change policy under different presidents, and discusses emerging programs under the Clean Air Act (CAA). Under the CAA, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issues emissions standards, and under the Energy Policy Conservation Act, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issues Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. The chapter also describes the protection of endangered species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The ESA directs the Fish and Wildlife Service to designate certain species as endangered or threatened; for marine species that task falls to the National Marine Fisheries Service.

Trucking Efficiency Versus Transportation Efficiency: An Economic Evaluation of TRB Special Report 267

2003 ◽  
Vol 1833 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard J. McCullough
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Transportation Policy ◽  
Motor Vehicles ◽  
Regulatory Regime ◽  
Special Report ◽  
Analytical Perspective ◽  
Truck Size And Weight ◽  
Freight Market ◽  
Commercial Motor Vehicles

TRB Special Report 267: Regulation of Weights, Lengths, and Widths of Commercial Motor Vehicles is critically evaluated. It is an important, congressionally mandated report that contains a series of conclusions and recommendations regarding truck size and weight (TS&W) regulations in the United States. The report concludes that increases in TS&W limits have great potential for increasing freight market efficiency but that safety and other effects are not well understood. To facilitate the liberalization of TS&W limits, the report recommends a revised regulatory regime that would involve federal supervision of state-set limits, with evaluation provided by an independent Commercial Traffic Effects Institute. This evaluation argues that the report focuses too narrowly on trucking efficiency and overlooks transportation efficiency. This narrow analytical perspective significantly limits its usefulness in establishing national transportation policy. Also, there is no analytical basis for the report's most important conclusions and recommendations, either in the report or in earlier TS&W studies evaluated by the Committee for the Study of the Regulation of Weights, Lengths, and Widths of Commercial Motor Vehicles.

Ambulance safety in the United States

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian J. Maguire, MSA, EMT-P
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Traffic Safety ◽  
The United States ◽  
Emergency Vehicle ◽  
Highway Traffic ◽  
National Highway Traffic Safety ◽  
Vehicle Collisions ◽  
Safety Testing ◽  
Safety Procedures ◽  
Communication Equipment

This paper reviews the dangers associated with ambulances in the United States. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) data, vehicle collisions involving ambulances result in twice as many injuries as the national average.Other dangers include: the safety of the vehicle itself; the lack of sufficient occupant protection in the ambulance patient compartment; distractions of the ambulance operator associated with operating lights, sirens, and communication equipment during emergency responses; drowsiness of the ambulance operator associated with extended work hours; and the lack of standardized or test- ed emergency vehicle operator training.Recommendations for improvement include: safety testing for vehicle crashworthiness, testing of diesel fume exposure among emergency medical services (EMS) personnel, and improved safety procedures for EMS personnel. Every effort must be made to make ambulances the safest vehicles on the roads of the United States.

Roadside Memorials

2003 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles O. Collins ◽  
Charles D. Rhine
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Traffic Safety ◽  
The United States ◽  
Highway Maintenance ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Automobile Accidents ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Church State Relations ◽  
State Relations

Roadside memorials or descansos have diffused from a Mexican/Southwestern regional Hispanic hearth to increasingly draw the attention of motorists and public officials throughout the United States. In the current context, the authors' attention is on privately and spontaneously erected memorials placed at the sites of fatal events. Typically these result from automobile accidents, though not exclusively. The intent of the present article is three-fold: 1) to identify meaning and significance in the precise placement of contemporary markers; 2) to directly investigate the motivation and purposes of memorial/ descanso builders; and 3) to survey issues of traffic safety, highway maintenance, landscape or visual blight, and church/state relations arising from the placement and maintenance of these roadside memorials.

Radionuclide thyroid studies: a survey of practice in the United States in 1981. Special report.

Radiology ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 150 (2) ◽  
pp. 547-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
T W Parker ◽  
F A Mettler ◽  
J H Christie ◽  
A G Williams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Report

scholarly journals Connected Vehicle Technology: An All Too Convenient Solution to Roadway Problems in the United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-115
Author(s):  
Victor Kustra
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Traffic Safety ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Connected Vehicle ◽  
Highway Traffic ◽  
National Highway Traffic Safety ◽  
Automobile Accidents ◽  
Connected Vehicle Technology ◽  
Vehicle Technology

Automobile accidents and roadway infrastructure problems are increasing in the United States.  Specifically, 5.7 million automobile accidents were reported in 2013.  The number of automobile accidents caused by lane drifting has increased over the past fifteen years, given the increased number of drivers on the road.   The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) have developed a cumulative solution to these problems. Connected Vehicle  technology is part of the USDOT’s “Intelligent Transportation Systems” (ITS) initiative.  The ITS initiative targets automobile crash avoidance and better traffic flow through the use of automated technologies.[1] Id. at v. 

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