The Safe-D Fall 2018 Workshop was held on September 12, 2018, kicking off the Fall 2018 Call for Proposals.
This project seeks to examine whether trafficβ volume estimates developed from disruptive technologies such as cell phones, GPS/Bluetooth devices, and alternative data sources (e.g., demographic, socioeconomic, land use data) can be used confidently and accurately to support data-driven safety analysis (i.e., network screening) to meet the 2016 Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) Final Rule requirements. βββββββ
States are required to have access to annual average daily traffic (AADT) for all public paved roads, including non-Federal aid system (NFAS) roadways. The expectation is to use AADT estimates in data-driven safety analysis. Because collecting data on NFAS roads is financially difficult, agencies are interested in exploring affordable ways to estimate AADT. The goal of this project was to determine the accuracy of AADT estimates developed from alternative data sources and quantify the impact of AADT on safety analysis. The researchers compared 2017 AADT data provided by the Texas Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Virginia DOT against probe-based … Webinar: Use of Disruptive Technologies to Support Safety Analysis and Meet New Federal Requirements
Β Media Contact Eric Holbrook 540-231-9301 eholbrook@vtti.vt.edu News Archive Eileen Herbers named among top transportation students in the country January 9, 2024 (Virginia Tech News) β A fifth-year doctoral student in biomedical engineering and mechanics at Virginia Tech, Eileen Herbers, was named the Student of the Year for the Safe-D: Safety through Disruption University Transportation Center. Herbers was presented with the award for her work on measuring the potential safety impact of automated driving systems at the Council of University Transportation Centers Awards Banquet preceding the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting on Jan. 6. Virginia Tech Transportation Institute researchers to … Press
To build upon the existing interest in transformative technologies and ensure that students see transportation as we do (as an exciting area for the application of next-generation and life-saving technologies), it is critical to connect with these future transportation leaders at all stages of their education and career development. Accordingly, we have designed the Safe-D to prioritize education and workforce development by both leveraging existing programs at each consortium university and creating complementary new programs with UTC support. A key to our approach is our Education and Workforce Development Coordinator position, held by Dr. Miguel Perez, an affiliate professor in … Education and Workforce Development
Recording Title/Project/Date Speaker Webinar Overview Link (YouTube) Title: Micromobility Regulation Best Practices Review: Scoot Now, Regulate Later Project: Safe-D TTI-05-04 Date: March 26, 2024 Gretchen Stoeltje, J.D., Texas A&M Transportation Institute This webinar will present the scope, methodology and findings of the Safe-D project Micromobility Regulation Best Practices Review (aka Scoot Now, Regulate Later). This project sought to locate data about e-scooter crashes, their actual causes, who or what party was responsible for the cause, and who or what party might be legally liable for the cause based on a combination of statutory and contractual assignment of that liability. The … Webinar Archive
This project will develop a method to evaluate street noise and documented crash rates on roadways.
Greg Griffin is a Safe-D faculty researcher at TTI working on Safe-D Project 02-026: Sources and Mitigation of Bias in Big Data for Transportation Safety and Safe-D Project 02-027: Street Noise Relationship to Vulnerable Road User Safety. Safe-D Student Huyen Le interviewed Dr. Griffin as part of the the Safe-D Student and Faculty Interview Chain. Read on to learn more about Dr. Griffin and his research!
The momentum of transformative technologies in transportation is unprecedented. Stories on advanced vehicles and infrastructure appear every day in popular media, highlighting our selected disruptive themes and applications. Yet, these disruptors will need considerable development over the next few decades, creating a high workforce demand. Transportation companies are recruiting from universities in increasing numbers (e.g., General Motors recently held a recruiting event at VTTI with over 300 hundred students), and new transportation job opportunities are abundant (e.g., Google has 36 jobs currently advertised for their self-driving car program). The Safe-D National UTC views this new demand as both an opportunity … Safe-D Student Support
The following information below is meant to be a helpful guide to understanding and navigating the rules on recycling the text. Please be mindful that no one should exclusively rely on these articles to make decisions regarding the reuse of information, materials, and others in an article.Β Be sure to consult your university counsel. What is Text Recycling? Researchers often have occasion to reuse material from their previously written documents in new documents. Examples of such occasions included reusing passages from oneβs IRB protocol in a grant proposal, reusing literature review material from a grant proposal in a research report, … Self Plagiarism: Helpful Guide for Safe-D Researchers