The ITS Blog

September 24, 2024
Brian Cronin
USDOT

This October, which is National Pedestrian Safety Month, the US Department of Transportation is emphasizing the safe system approach and boosting its efforts to improve safety for vulnerable road users. Everyone deserves to be safe while walking or rolling on our streets ...

September 18, 2024
Pete Goldin
ITSdigest

Autonomous vehicles could have saved up to 1,300 lives, and prevented up to 5,000 major injuries in California over past three years, according to two a new study from Chamber of Progress ...

August 16, 2024
Brian Cronin
USDOT

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 ...

July 15, 2024
Pete Goldin
ITSdigest

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 ...

May 01, 2024
Pete Goldin
ITSdigest

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 ...

April 02, 2024
Pete Goldin
ITSdigest

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 ...

October 16, 2023
Pete Goldin
ITSdigest

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 ...

October 12, 2023
Pete Goldin
ITSdigest

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) ...

September 22, 2023
Pete Goldin
ITSdigest

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 ...

August 17, 2023
Pete Goldin
ITSdigest

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 ...

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