Driver distraction is at the forefront of public discussion concerning safety on America’s roads and highways. Understanding the risks of distracted driving and finding ways to prevent it has been the goal of Federal, State, and private organizations for decades. The objective of this study was to address the identified gaps in the literature by co
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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), in cooperation with the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, has developed an analytic model to measure the effectiveness of roadside inspections and traffic enforcements in terms of the number of crashes avoided, injuries prevented, and lives saved. Traffic enforcements and
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
2015-06-01
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Roadside Inspection and Traffic Enforcement are two of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA’s) key safety programs. The Roadside Inspection program consists of roadside inspections performed by qualified safety inspectors. These inspections follow the guidelines of the North American Standard, which were developed by FMCSA and t
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
2015-05-01
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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) was created as an operating administration within the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) by the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999. The primary mission of the FMCSA is to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.The Commercial Vehicle Informati
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Office of Analysis, Research, and Technology
2015-04-01
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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) 2015 Pocket Guide to Large Truck and Bus Statistics highlights the Agency’s role in enforcement and in collecting and analyzing crash data and statistics to support its mission to prevent commercial motor vehicle-related fatalities and injuries. Sections include: The Motor Carrier Management
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
2015-04-01
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The Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks (CVISN) grant program supports the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA’s) safety mission by providing grant funds to States to:• Improve safety and productivity of motor carriers, commercial motor vehicles (CMVs), and their drivers.• Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
2015-04-01
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In 2013, 30,057 fatal crashes took place on our Nation’s roadways, with 11.8 percent (3,541) involving at least one large truck.1 The majority of large truck fatal crashes (63 percent) involved two vehicles, while 22 percent were single-vehicle crashes, and 15.1 percent were multi-vehicle crashes. In 2013, there were 3,536 total vehicle occupant fa
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United States. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Analysis Division
2015-04-01
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This annual edition of Large Truck and Bus Crash Facts contains descriptive statistics about fatal, injury, and property damage only crashes involving large trucks and buses in 2013. Selected crash statistics on passenger vehicles are also presented for comparison purposes.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), in cooperation with the John A. Volpe NationalTransportation Systems Center (Volpe), has developed a quantitative model to measure the effectiveness of motorcarrier interventions in terms of estimated crashes avoided, injuries prevented, and lives saved. The model,documented in this report, i
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
2015-01-01
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The Carrier Intervention Effectiveness Model (CIEM)provides the Federal Motor Carrier SafetyAdministration (FMCSA) with a tool for measuringthe safety benefits of carrier interventions conductedunder the Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA)enforcement program. The CSA program includes anarray of carrier intervention types that replace theuniver
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NCFRP Report 9: Guidance for Developing a Freight Data Architecture articulates the valueof establishing architecture for linking data across modes, subjects, and levels of geography to obtain essential information for decision making. Central to the architecture is a catalog of data elements currently being collected and the definitions of those e
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
2014-12-01
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The DataQs Analyst Guide provides practical guidance and best practices to address and resolve Requests for Data Reviews (RDRs) submitted electronically to FMCSA by motor carriers, commercial drivers, and other persons using the DataQs system. The document is designed primarily to assist FMCSA and State agency DataQs analysts by providing uniform,
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
2014-12-01
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The purpose of this project was to better understand the nature of detention times in the commercial motor vehicle (CMV) industry. Detention time refers to the time that CMV operators may experience at shipping and receiving facilities associated with loading and unloading cargo. Detention times can have safety and operational impacts, including ho
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United States. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
2014-12-01
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This report summarizes the results of the 2012 Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) Drug and Alcohol Testing Survey. This annual survey measures the percentage of drivers with commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) who test positive for controlled substances (referred to as drugs in this report) and/or alcohol, as a result of random and
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The purpose of this project was to quantitatively identify detention times in the commercial motor vehicle (CMV)industry. Although there is currently no standard definition, the industry commonly defines detention time as “anytime drivers have to wait beyond 2 hours, which is the average time it takes to load or unload their cargo.” Resultsindicate
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
2014-11-01
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Two of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA’s) key safety programs are the Roadside Inspection and Traffic Enforcement programs. The Roadside Inspection program consists of roadside inspections performed by qualified safety inspectors. These inspections follow the guidelines of the North American Standard, which were developed b
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
2014-11-01
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In 2012, 30,800 fatal crashes took place on our Nation’s roadways, with 11.2 percent (3,464) involving at least 1 large truck. While the majority of all fatal crashes (98.2 percent) took place outside of a work zone in 2012, 547 fatal crashes (1.8 percent) occurred in a construction, maintenance, utility or other work zone (see Table 1). In contras
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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), in cooperation with the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, has developed an analytic model to measure the effectiveness of roadside inspections and traffic enforcements in terms of the number of crashes avoided, injuries prevented, and lives saved. Traffic enforcements and
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
2014-11-01
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Truck drivers and carrier personnel were interviewed on the use of electronic logging devices (ELDs) for keeping track of driving hours and whether these devices were used to harass drivers. This research examined the following issues:• Whether drivers considered their ELD-related experiences and interactions with their carriers as harassment.• How
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The research contained herein is an examination of managerial harassment experienced by drivers, and whether harassment is associated with the method used to log hours of service (HOS). Similar information was gathered from a sample of carriers. Truck drivers were interviewed in person at truck stops in the United States; carriers were interviewed
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