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New Book Offers Tools for Addressing Worker Fatigue and Transportation Safety
Edited by Volpe’s Dr. Stephen Popkin, a new book by the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society provides policy makers, practitioners, and researchers with real-world, practical guidance for addressing worker fatigue and transportation safety.
New Report Offers Framework for Integrating Health and Transportation
A new report geared toward state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) provides a framework for DOTs to integrate public health considerations into their transportation planning and decision making.
Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program Yields Striking Results
If you build integrated walking and bicycling networks into a community’s transportation system, will people use it?
That’s what Congress wanted to know nearly a decade ago when it established the Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program (NTPP). Through NTPP, the Federal Highway...
Executive Leadership Group on Traffic Incident Management
Working to accelerate and expand the national deployment of safety-critical programs.
Funding Constraints Fuel New Paradigms in Federal Transportation Policy
Emil Frankel shared his insight on the significant reforms emerging from MAP-21.
DOT Senior Executives Convene to Address Traffic Incident Safety
The need for improved traffic incident management is urgent. Each year, dozens of emergency responders, highway workers, and tow operators are killed while responding to traffic incidents; countless more are injured or experience near-miss situations. Moving traffic threatens the safety of first...