The ITS Blog
With a steady stream of news articles, corporate announcements, and stories on the nightly news, we are hearing more and more about automated vehicles. The potential benefits that AVs could bring to our roadways in terms of safety, mobility, and accessibility are great, but realizing those benefits requires planning and coordination ...
More than 114,000 workers — and possibly up to 455,000 workers – will be employed over the next 15 years to meet AV production, distribution, maintenance, upgrades, and repair needs, according to a new report from the Chamber of Progress ...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) finalized a new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard that will make automatic emergency braking (AEB), including pedestrian AEB, standard on all passenger cars and light trucks by September 2029 ...
Waymo published research in December comparing Waymo Driver's crash rates to human drivers' over 7+ million rider-only miles from Phoenix, San Francisco, and Los Angeles ...
A September 2023 report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that ITS results in safety- and congestion-related benefits, as well as some potential environmental benefits ...
A September 2023 report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) outlined several challenges that state and local agencies face when operating Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) ...
The global transportation sector is experiencing transformative change fueled by advances in digital technology. In this rapidly evolving landscape, the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) is facing an urgent need to create a comprehensive digital infrastructure strategy that aligns to a wide network of interconnected stakeholders, a dynamic technological landscape, and needed regulatory support, according to the National Digital Infrastructure Strategy Report from ITS America and Cambridge Consultants ...
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) could prevent approximately 37 million crashes, 14 million injuries, and nearly 250,000 deaths over the next 30 years, according to new research from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety ...
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) can help drivers with some driving tasks, however, drivers may lack appropriate knowledge about ADAS (referred to as their mental model) which can translate to misusing or mistrusting the technologies, especially in situations beyond the capability of the system, according to new research from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety ...
The US and Canada announced the first Binational Electric Vehicle (EV) Corridor, which will stretch from Kalamazoo, Michigan, to Quebec City, Quebec, tapping into the 75,000+ miles of Alternative Fuel Corridors in the United States ...
