A new approach to road safety that relies on design and engineering principles -- the 'Safe System' approach -- could lead to dramatic reductions in vehicle-related deaths and injuries if implemented ...

A map of Portland traffic crash deaths from 2015-2019. The orange triangles indicate alcohol was involved. Everybody knows not to drink and drive. So why are we still seeing so many needless deaths ...

With an increasing national roadway crisis including 38,824 traffic fatalities in 2020, National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy recently challenged safety leaders to use the Safe ...

LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's Traffic Safety Advisory Commission approved the final version of the 2023-2026 Michigan Strategic Highway Safety Plan, or SHSP, Tuesday. The data-driven, ...

Students ride their bikes onto the JL Stanford Middle School campus on the first day of school in 2021. Photo by Adam Pardee. When the Palo Alto City Council launched an update of its bicycle master ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] WASHINGTON — Adopting emerging technologies across the transportation landscape will improve safety for commuters and the freight sector ...

Mayor Daniel Lurie’s street safety announcement followed news of the death of a 1-year-old child in the city’s Hayes Valley ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Researchers in the Purdue Polytechnic Institute have developed a patent-pending, economically viable, simplified light system to automatically indicate an airport runway’s ...

The Safe System approach, shown to be highly successful in reducing road deaths and injuries abroad, also seen as way to improve safety and equity in historically underserved communities in the US ...