Sentences with phrase «traffic safety studies»

City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D - Sunnyside) called for the city Department of Transportation to do a traffic safety study of Thomson Avenue last week in light of a car crash that killed a 16 - year - old boy and injured four LaGuardia Community College students.

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Amendments would include requiring a witness to the self administration, restore the illegality of falsifying the death certificate require the posting of the poison applied in the medical record for the sake of good stewardship for future studies, register organ / tissue trafficking, reveal commissions and memorials paid to the corporate facilitators and keep all records for transparent public safety policy.

In August 2010, Rosenthal and Stringer called on the DOT to improve safety at the intersection, saying the agency was spending too much time studying the traffic - heavy site and not enough time making actual improvements.

A new bill that is now in effect for 2017 that mandates a study of safety at grade crossings, the possibility of implementing design changes, the quality of traffic and pedestrian warning signals, and the cost to equip commuter trains with Positive Train Control technology.

(Caveat: That impressive figure, pulled from a study commissioned by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, excludes intoxicated drivers and assumes that everyone on the road is driving a talking car, that every intersection and stop sign in America can join in the conversation, and that the auto industry agrees on standardized equipment for all this chatter.)

It takes up to 27 seconds to regain full attention after issuing voice commands, University of Utah researchers found in a pair of new studies for the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.

«Two of our research studies analyzed several years of crash data and controlled for several variables, including traffic amounts, to account for safety of the interchanges before and after they became DDIs while taking into account DDI ramp lengths, giving us a more complete and robust sample of results that we feel is very comprehensive.»

Nearly 80 percent of drivers expressed significant anger, aggression or road rage behind the wheel at least once in the past year, according to a new study released today by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.

Driving on the Right Side of the Road The DRSR program has created a series of lessons for social studies classes at the elementary and secondary levels that focus on citizenship education and traffic safety.

The DRSR program has created a series of lessons for social studies classes at the elementary and secondary levels that focus on citizenship education and traffic safety.

TomTom itself uses customer data to help reroute drivers approaching traffic jams, but also shares the information with local governments, in the hope they will study traffic patterns and discover areas of safety concern.

The information from these and other studies are then used in officer traffic safety programs to help reduce crash fatalities and injuries.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) launched the study last spring at the request of Congress, and enlisted NASA engineers with expertise in areas such as computer controlled electronic systems, electromagnetic interference and software integrity to conduct new research into whether electronic systems or electromagnetic interference played a role in incidents of unintended acceleration.

NHTSA also released the results of a study conducted in conjunction with the State of Washington's Traffic Safety Commission of the effect of Washington's recent legalization of recreational use of marijuana on the prevalence of marijuana - positive drivers in Washington State, before and after retail sale of marijuana went into effect.

In its study of the distraction periods caused by the use of in - vehicle multimedia systems and smartphone features, researchers with AAA's Foundation for Traffic Safety tested the reactions of 322 drivers ages 21 to 70 using hands - free technologies in 10 model - year 2015 vehicles and three smartphone systems.

In 2009 the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) began studying whether to mandate lane departure warning systems and frontal collision warning systems on automobiles.

In the early - 2000s, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) studied whether to make frontal collision warning systems and lane departure warning systems mandatory.

Mazda is working toward the realization of better real - world safety features for its vehicles by studying contemporary social and traffic environments and strives to make the Mazda vehicles of the future even safer for its customers.

With three models of head - turning styling, two legendary HEMI V - 8 engine choices, up to 25 highway miles per gallon (mpg), more than 25 safety and security features and modern amenities, including Media Center 730N with voice - activated Uconnect ™ Navigation system and real - time traffic available, it's no surprise Dodge Challenger was awarded J.D. Power and Associates «Most Appealing Midsize Sporty Car» in its 2009 APEAL Study.

Mostly it was the result of two recent studies by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that came to similar and compelling conclusions.

Previous studies on the effectiveness of ABS - conducted by auto manufacturers, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Canadian government and the insurance institute - also failed to show the systems have clear benefits.

According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) data, one - third of all police - reported crashes involve a rear - end collision (2013 study).

In addition to addressing matters like fire safety and drug use, the document would forbid «deliberate or knowing disruption of the free flow of pedestrian traffic on Cooper Union premises» and «behavior that disturbs the peace, academic study or sleep of others on or off campus.»

In the study, traffic safety fears were the number one deterrent to those considering bicycling — 48 percent of survey respondents overall said this concern was a big barrier to bicycling.

According to the Utah Safety Council, a 2014 traffic study found that a crash happens in the state every nine minutes, with a related injury occurring every twenty - three minutes, and a fatality taking place every 39.5 hours.

According to a study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), a leading cause of commercial truck accidents is fatigued drivers.

According to a study by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), the arm of the DOT that regulates the trucking industry, commercial vehicles consist of only 4 percent of registered vehicles on the road, but are involved in over 13 percent of overall traffic fatalities.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published a study this week, showing that three separate devices designed specifically to alert drivers when infants and children are left alone in a car do not work properly.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently published a study addressing the impact of crash severity on the likelihood that a driver or passenger in a rear - end accident would develop health problems resulting from soft tissue injury.

All of the studies and reports on traffic safety suggest that the habitual use of seat belts is the best available protection against negligent drivers and the harm they cause.

The AAA's Foundation for Traffic Safety used researchers from the University of Utah to study the effects of infotainment systems on distracted driving.

According to a study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), a leading cause of commercial truck accidents is...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a press release last month regarding the results of two recent studies on impaired driving in the U.S..

According to a study by the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration, motorcyclists are actually 37 times more likely to be fatally injured in a collision and 9 times more likely to be injured.

For example, the Hurt Report, a landmark study which was commissioned by the National Highway Traffic Safety Commission in the early 1980s, found that approximately two - thirds of all collisions between motorcycles and automobiles are caused by the driver.

A study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Association found that the number of drivers who operate a car under the influence of drugs has risen over the past 10 years.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration conducts studies each year to provide statistical analysis regarding traffic collisions and truck accidents in the United Traffic Safety Administration conducts studies each year to provide statistical analysis regarding traffic collisions and truck accidents in the United traffic collisions and truck accidents in the United States.

A new study released by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety (AAA) claims that fatal hit and run accidents continue to increase.

Slutsky also worked as an engineering assistant in combination with the local government for a non-profit safety organization collecting and studying traffic data.

From studies conducted in 2009 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, distracted driving was the cause of 16 % of fatal crashes and 20 % of injury crashes.

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The United States Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration conducted a study and found that the quality of motorcycle helmets has improved dramatically in recent years.

According to a study released in 2013 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) more than 4,000 pedestrians were killed and nearly 70,000 pedestrians were injured in traffic crashes across the country iTraffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) more than 4,000 pedestrians were killed and nearly 70,000 pedestrians were injured in traffic crashes across the country itraffic crashes across the country in 2011.

A recent study conducted on Kentucky car accidents by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported that in 2009 there were nearly 800 fatalities.

The National Traffic Safety Administration was also involved in the study.

A study conducted by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety claims technology installed in a vehicle's dash that allows motorists to text or email using voice commands is more distracting than using a mobile telephone.

In fact, a 2008 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) study reported that head injuries accounted for 70 percent of bicycle fatalities.

The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers apparently cautioned that a number of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration studies found handheld mobile phones were more dangerous than hands - free devices.

According to one study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, drivers turning left in front of motorcyclists were responsible for a staggering