Commuters around the world dream of ideal driving conditions every day, but they rarely get them. The traffic is often heavy and gets worse when the weather turns sour. Light…
Texas Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) for 2022-2027
Project Overview: The mission of the Texas Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) is to reduce fatalities and serious injuries on state and local roadways. The SHSP is intended to be…
Employer-Based Behavioral Traffic Safety Programs
Little was known about if or how behavioral change theories were being used to design and evaluate employer-provided behavior traffic safety programs. This was a concern because rooting interventions in…
Walk. Bike. Safe. Texas
One out of every five fatalities on Texas roadways are a pedestrian or bicyclist. In Fact, Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) crash data shows that in 2021 over 900 pedestrians…
Law Enforcement Training on Pedestrian and Bicyclist Laws
In 2021, there were 824 pedestrian fatalities and 90 bicyclist fatalities in Texas, which is 20.4 percent of all roadway fatalities combined, or one in five fatalities. This represents a…
Improving Pedestrian Safety Near Bus Stops
Pedestrian crashes occur often on transit corridors, and a significant number of pedestrian crashes on these corridors involve transit system riders. Two of the main contributing factors for pedestrian crashes…