Safety

Reducing Fatalities and Severe Injuries with the National Roadway Safety Strategy

The NRSS sets a vision of zero roadway deaths, and identified tangible Departmental actions to reduce the number of deaths each year. The NRSS seeks a sustained and concerted effort from all sectors and levels of government, the public and private sector, advocacy, and research. A U.S. DOT Volpe...

Increasing Efficiency in Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Inspections

Some highway-rail grade crossings are inspected only every 2-3 years. To address this challenge, VisioStack developed the Aerial Crossing Inspection System (AXIS) to assess crossing safety more efficiently with help from U.S. DOT’s SBIR program and the Federal Railroad Administration. AXIS allows...

New Drone-Based System Assesses Highway-Rail Crossings to Improve Safety

Poor highway-rail grade crossing design can contribute to rail incidents. To address this challenge, MTRI Inc. developed Crossing-i, a drone-enabled inspection system, to assess crossing safety with help from U.S. DOT’s SBIR program and the Federal Railroad Administration. Crossing-i can help rail...

Robotic Utility Mapper Reduces Costs, Improves Safety During Infrastructure Planning and Maintenance

Accurately locating buried utilities is critical to safe infrastructure planning and maintenance. Enter RUMI—the robot that maps utility lines—developed by Intelligent Automation, Inc. with help from U.S.DOT's SBIR program and FHWA.

First-of-Its-Kind Hazard Alert System for Motorcyclists

With support from U.S. DOT’s SBIR program, Charles River Analytics developed a first-of—its-kind roadway hazard alert application for motorcyclists that alerts motorcyclists to such roadway dangers as infrastructure hazards, surface hazards, roadway obstacles, and weather hazards.

Suicide Intervention Training Program Basics

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Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Safety and Trespass Prevention Research

The U.S. DOT Volpe Center’s Systems Safety and Engineering Division works on behalf of the Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Safety and Trespass Prevention Program to evaluate methodologies, visual and audio warnings, motor vehicle and train presence detection,...

Connected Vehicles at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings Research

The U.S. DOT Volpe Center’s Systems Safety and Engineering Division supports FRA research activities related to designing, developing, and testing the Railroad Crossing Violation Warning (RCVW) vehicle-to-infrastructure safety application for connected vehicles. This collection of publications and...

Introducing Students to Careers in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)

In 2014, FHWA sponsored an SBIR topic titled “STEM Education: Increasing Awareness about Intelligent Transportation Systems and Connected Vehicle Technologies for High School Students.” The topic aimed to create innovative, hands-on, problem-based learning opportunities that would give students the...

Preventing Suicides on the U.S. Rail System through Intervention Training Programs

A U.S. DOT Volpe Center team of human factors experts helped to publish a new report, “Review of Suicide Intervention Training Programs,” to fill the gap in research about suicide intervention training programs for railroad staff and crew members.

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