Volume 22 – Issue 6

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recently unveiled a unique site to help local agencies reduce serious and fatal crashes on their roadways. The Local Road Safety Plan Do-It-Yourself [...]

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration today released a preview of 2019 data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System and preliminary estimates [...]

The FHWA Guide for Improving Pedestrian Safety at Uncontrolled Crossing Locations has been applied to countless roadways, discussed in dozens of workshops, and referenced in several agency [...]

In response to a citizen complaint, a local traffic authority requested that the State DOT conduct an engineering study and consider lowering the existing 45-mile-per-hour (mph) speed limit to [...]

Each year in the United States, nearly 12,000 people die in roadway departure crashes on rural roads. That is more than 30 people today, and every day. It is easy

Pennsylvania Context Like many other States, Pennsylvania has a diversity of government agencies, topography, and road ownership that makes systemic safety improvements for horizontal alignment [...]

Happy Holidays CAMTEA members, The Federal Highway Administration has posted the Notice of Proposed Amendments to the MUTCD in the Federal Register. It contains over 600 proposed revisions to the

COVID Preparedness for Municipalities…What if?” was a November 4 virtual Supervisory Round Table sponsored by Vermont Local Roads, in cooperation with Baystate Roads, the Delaware T2/LTAP Center, [...]

FHWA‘s Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program released two resources in the past couple of years that also include free online technical assistance and training. As mentioned in the fall 2018

Pedestrian fatalities have risen in recent years, both in number and in the percentage of all highway fatalities. From 2009 to 2018, pedestrian fatalities in crashes increased 53 percent, and

By: Jenni Bergal Work zone crashes and fatalities have spiked in some states during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the drop in traffic, alarming transportation and highway safety officials. [...]