My daughter wonders why a government that can trace Angela Davis to a motel room can’t stop the heroin traffic. She says aloud what a lot of older people haven’t yet put into words: human values are the most important, and America needs something to believe in. I have listened to bl...
In this section, we consider the public policy implications of the estimates obtained in the prior section. In the spirit of L&P, we begin assessing the negative externalities of distracted driving by calculating the number of traffic fatalities that would have been avoided if a driver had not ...
Between 2015 and 2022, drivers killed 231 pedestrians across the Richmond Region. However, many of those crashes are concentrated along a few select arterial corridors in our region. Overwhelmingly, these corridors are designed for the speed and ease of vehicular traffic, with little to no safety ...
Responding to the alarming rise in traffic fatalities, the NHTSA began studying distracted driving and started campaigns to raise awareness. Working with the Department of Transportation, the NHTSA created the “U Drive. U Text. U Pay.” campaign featuring graphic videos showing the consequences of...
Volcanic eruptions occur as a result ofheat moving under Earth’s surface. They often begin with an accumulation of gas-richmagma(molten underground rock) in reservoirs nearEarth’ssurface, though they may be preceded by emissions ofsteamandgasfrom small vents in the ground. Smallearthquakes, whi...
In 2021, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported over 12,000 speed-related fatalities in the United States alone. Previous studies aggregated over-speeding tendency; however, the extent of over-speeding has a significant implication on the crash outcome. This study delves into ...
Railways belong to a regulated and very safe transport sector18and since the very beginning, railway safety has been based on conservative principles and worst-case approach. The worst-case approach takes into account many scenarios and assumptions that are unlikely to occur simultaneously. Railway te...
The initiative has the ambitious goal to eliminate traffic fatalities in eight years. Mayor Garcetti unveiled the plan in 2015, and the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, along with several other city agencies, spent most of 2016 conducting focus groups and collecting feedback on the idea....
of traffic safety. The findings of this research reveal that certain factors, such as average, alcohol consumption, unemployment rate, minimum wage, and vehicle miles traveled (VMT), among others, have a substantial impact on the multifactorial model and play a considerable role in the frequency ...
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