Skip to main content

"Behind each and every one of those numbers is an individual": USDoT Intersection Safety Challenge

January 8, 2025

Related Content

  • Iteris monitors intersection without sensors
    April 23, 2024
    Iteris is demonstrating Signal Trends, its new set of probe data-based metrics within the ClearGuide traffic analytics software solution. It is designed to help agencies reduce congestion by identifying deterioration at the traffic signal level without reliance on infrastructure.
  • Smart intersection deployed in Owosso, Michigan
    January 31, 2012
    Kapsch TrafficCom, DGE, and The-Transformation-Network, have partnered to launch an intelligent transportation environment.
  • In-vehicle intersection violation Warning system
    January 31, 2012
    Mike Schagrin, ITS Joint Program Office, RITA, and John Harding, NHTSA, describe US progress towards an in-vehicle Intersection Violation Warning system. In 2008, there were 37,261 fatalities on US roadways. Of these, 7,772, some 20.8 per cent of the total, were defined as intersection crashes or intersection-related crashes. Through a multi-agency research initiative led by the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) has developed a prototype In
  • Intersection collision avoidance system trial
    January 31, 2012
    Although much of the emphasis of research into intersection management has tended to concentrate on the needs of urban locations, there remain specific issues pertaining to rural intersections which need to be addressed. Here, Rebecca Szymkowski and Greg Helgeson, Wisconsin DOT, Todd Szymkowski, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Craig Shankwitz and Arvind Menon, University of Minnesota detail progress on an intersection collision avoidance system for more remote locations.