Safer Stop and Go: Garrett Morgan’s Traffic Signal Legacy
Inventor, Invention, and Patent
by FHWA staff writer
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Legacy ID
21
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Making Safety Everyone's Business: Integrate Safety into All Programs and Projects Poster
Every transportation project, whether the project's purpose is safety-related or not, is an opportunity to improve safety. This poster identifies opportunities to integrate safety at each phase of the transportation project development process, helps transportation practitioners understand...Washington State Injury Minimization and Speed Management Case Study
Summary
Speeding, exceeding the posted speed limits, or traveling too fast for conditions was a contributing factor in almost 29 percent of all fatalities in 2021. Of the 42,939 fatalities that occurred on our Nation’s roadways that year, 12,330 were speeding-related—an increase of 7.9 percent from 2020 (Stewart 2023). Speed is fundamental in dictating injury risk for all road users in any crash, especially for vulnerable road users (VRUs) such as pedestrians and bicyclists (Corben 2020).
This is one of ten case studies accompanying the Safe System Approach for Speed Management Report. Read the full report here.
Video-Based Network-Wide Speed and Speeding Analysis, Bellevue, Washington Case Study
Summary
Speeding, exceeding the posted speed limits, or traveling too fast for conditions was a contributing factor in almost 29 percent of all fatalities in 2021. Of the 42,939 fatalities that occurred on our Nation’s roadways that year, 12,330 were speeding-related—an increase of 7.9 percent from 2020 (Stewart 2023). Speed is fundamental in dictating injury risk for all road users in any crash, especially for vulnerable road users (VRUs) such as pedestrians and bicyclists (Corben 2020).
This is one of ten case studies accompanying the Safe System Approach for Speed Management Report. Read the full report here.
Automated Speed Enforcement, Montgomery County, Maryland Case Study
Summary
Speeding, exceeding the posted speed limits, or traveling too fast for conditions was a contributing factor in almost 29 percent of all fatalities in 2021. Of the 42,939 fatalities that occurred on our Nation’s roadways that year, 12,330 were speeding-related—an increase of 7.9 percent from 2020 (Stewart 2023). Speed is fundamental in dictating injury risk for all road users in any crash, especially for vulnerable road users (VRUs) such as pedestrians and bicyclists (Corben 2020).
This is one of ten case studies accompanying the Safe System Approach for Speed Management Report. Read the full report here.