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  • An Assessment of the Safety Performance of Farm Vehicles Subject to Exemptions Under MAP21
    An Assessment of the Safety Performance of Farm Vehicles Subject to Exemptions Under MAP-21
    Gruberg, Richard
    2016-05-01 | PDF
    This report presents the methodology and findings from an analysis conducted by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA’s) Office of Analysis, Research, and Technology, with support from the Office of Field Operations, in response to the requirement in the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) that a safety stu ...
  • Fatal Crashes Involving Drivers Recorded As Asleep or Fatigued 2013 Analysis Brief
    Fatal Crashes Involving Drivers Recorded As Asleep or Fatigued 2013: Analysis Brief
    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
    2016-05-01 | PDF
    In 2013, 30,057 fatal crashes took place on our Nation’s roadways, with 11.8 percent (3,541) involving at least 1 large truck. This analysis reviews fatal crashes in which the large truck driver was recorded as being fatigued at the time of the crash. Based on data contained in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) Fatality ...
  • Pocket Guide to Large Truck and Bus Statistics 2016
    Pocket Guide to Large Truck and Bus Statistics 2016
    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Office of Analysis, Research, and Technology
    2016-05-01 | PDF
    The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) 2016 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 ...
  • Pedestrian and Bicyclist Fatalities in Large Truck Crashes 2013
    Pedestrian and Bicyclist Fatalities in Large Truck Crashes 2013
    Britton, Daniel
    2016-05-01 | PDF
    This report presents data on pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities in large truck crashes over the past several years (up to 2013). Information is provided on the characteristics of fatal crashes recorded in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). Pedestrians who died in crashes involv ...
  • An Assessment of the Safety Performance of Farm Vehicles Subject to Exemptions Under MAP21 Analysis Brief
    An Assessment of the Safety Performance of Farm Vehicles Subject to Exemptions Under MAP-21: Analysis Brief
    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
    2016-05-01 | PDF
    The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) requires that the Secretary of Transportation conduct a “Safety Study” of covered farm vehicles. The Act defines a “covered farm vehicle” as a vehicle that: MAP-21 requires that the Safety Study address specific subject areas, which are listed with study findings in Table 1 on the follo ...
  • Effectiveness of Onsite Focused Investigations Analysis Brief
    Effectiveness of Onsite Focused Investigations [Analysis Brief]
    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
    2016-03-01 | PDF
    This analysis assesses the effectiveness of onsitefocused investigations of motor carriers, relative toonsite comprehensive investigations, conducted duringcalendar years 2011 and 2012. Effectiveness wasmeasured by examining trends in motor carrierBehavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Category(BASIC) scores subsequent to each type ofinvestigatio ...
  • FMCSA Safety Program Effectiveness Measurement Roadside Intervention Effectiveness Model Fiscal Year 2012
    FMCSA Safety Program Effectiveness Measurement: Roadside Intervention Effectiveness Model, Fiscal Year 2012
    Horton, Suzanne ;
    Segev, Eran
    2016-02-01 | PDF
    The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), in cooperation with the John A. Volpe NationalTransportation Systems Center, has developed an analytic model to measure the effectiveness of roadsideinspections and traffic enforcements in terms of crashes prevented, injuries prevented, and lives saved. Trafficenforcements and roadside inspec ...
  • FMCSA Safety Program Effectiveness Measurement Roadside Intervention Effectiveness Model Fiscal Year 2012 Analysis Brief
    FMCSA Safety Program Effectiveness Measurement: Roadside Intervention Effectiveness Model, Fiscal Year 2012 [Analysis Brief]
    United States. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Analysis Division
    2016-02-01 | PDF
    Roadside Inspection and Traffic Enforcement are two ofthe Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s(FMCSA’s) key safety programs. The RoadsideInspection Program consists of roadside inspectionsperformed by qualified safety inspectors. Theseinspections follow the North American Standardguidelines, which were developed by FMCSA and theCommercial ...
  • Analysis of FMCSA Civil Penalty Enforcement Cases 201014 Analysis Brief
    Analysis of FMCSA Civil Penalty Enforcement Cases, 2010-14: Analysis Brief
    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
    2016-01-01 | PDF
    The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is responsible for ensuring that all truck and bus companies, drivers and other entities regulated by the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) comply with all Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs). These entities can be subject to FMCSA enforcement action taken in conjunction ...
  • Results from the 2013 Drug and Alcohol Testing Survey Analysis Brief
    Results from the 2013 Drug and Alcohol Testing Survey: Analysis Brief
    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
    2015-12-01 | PDF
    This report summarizes the results of the 2013 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) that test positive for controlled substances (referred to as drugs in this report) and/or alcohol, as a result of random an ...
  • Driver Distraction Eye Glance Analysis and Conversation Workload
    Driver Distraction: Eye Glance Analysis and Conversation Workload
    Hickman, Jeffrey S. ;
    Soccolich, Susan
    2015-11-01 | PDF
    The objective of this project was to assess the risk of performing a secondary task while driving a commercial motor vehicle (CMV). The risk of conversation workload while driving a CMV was also assessed. Conversation workload is a proxy for cognitive distraction or the amount of mental workload associated with thinking about something other than t ...
  • Pedestrian and Bicyclist Fatalities in Large Truck Crashes 2013 Analysis Brief
    Pedestrian and Bicyclist Fatalities in Large Truck Crashes 2013 [Analysis Brief]
    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
    2015-11-01 | PDF
    From 2006 to 2013, pedestrian fatalities as apercentage of total fatalities in all motor vehiclecrashes rose from 11.2 percent to 14.5 percent, andbicyclist fatalities as a percentage of total fatalitiesrose from 1.8 percent to 2.3 percent. Over this period,pedestrians’ share of large truck crash fatalities grewfrom 6.3 percent to 8.5 percent, and ...
  • Electric Drive Vehicle Systems Suggested Changes to Large Truck and Motorcoach Regulations and Inspection Procedures Technology Brief
    Electric Drive Vehicle Systems: Suggested Changes to Large Truck and Motorcoach Regulations and Inspection Procedures [Technology Brief]
    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
    2015-11-01 | PDF
    Most commercial vehicles on the road today uselow-voltage electrical systems (12/24 volts directcurrent). The current Federal Motor Carrier SafetyRegulations (FMCSRs), North American Standard(NAS) inspection procedures, and out-of-service(OOS) criteria do not address the unique safetyaspects of high voltages (greater than 60 volts directcurrent or ...
  • Driver Distraction Eye Glance Analysis and Conversation Workload Research Brief
    Driver Distraction: Eye Glance Analysis and Conversation Workload [Research Brief]
    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
    2015-11-01 | PDF
    The objective of this project was to:• Assess the risk of performing a secondary taskwhile driving a commercial motor vehicle (CMV).• Better understand the relationship of conversationworkload and visual distraction during mobilephone conversations or interpersonal interactionswhile CMV drivers are performing in real-worlddriving conditions.
  • Large Truck Safety in the Bakken OilProducing Region Analysis Brief
    Large Truck Safety in the Bakken Oil-Producing Region [Analysis Brief]
    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
    2015-11-01 | PDF
    The Bakken shale oil-producing region encompasses parts of North Dakota and Montana in the United States and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada, with North Dakota accounting for 93 percent of the U.S. production (see Figure 1). The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that as of February 2015, the Bakken region was producing more than 1. ...
  • Smart Roadside Initiative Final Report
    Smart Roadside Initiative: Final Report
    Schaefer, Ron ;
    Newton, Diane
    2015-09-01 | PDF
    This is the Final Report for the Smart Roadside Initiative (SRI) prototype system deployment project. The SRI prototype was implemented at weigh stations in Grass Lake, Michigan and West Friendship, Maryland. The prototype was developed to integrate with existing technologies already available at the weigh stations to provide one common system user ...
  • Electric Drive Vehicle Systems Suggested Changes to Large Truck and Motorcoach Regulations and Inspection Procedures
    Electric Drive Vehicle Systems: Suggested Changes to Large Truck and Motorcoach Regulations and Inspection Procedures
    Lowell, Dana
    2015-09-01 | PDF
    This report provides recommendations for changes to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs),North American Standard (NAS) inspection procedures, and Out-of-Service (OOS) criteria that are needed toaccommodate and facilitate the use of commercial vehicles with high-voltage electric drive systems. Such vehiclesinclude battery-electric v ...
  • Overview of Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Safety Training Research for New Entrant Motor Carriers
    Overview of Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Safety Training Research for New Entrant Motor Carriers
    Goettee, David ;
    Spiegel, Walter
    2015-07-01 | PDF
    New entrant motor carriers generally are very small and have poorer safety performance than more established carriers. This may be because very small carriers do not have the resources for a safety department or a safety official on staff. To help address this, the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) amended the Motor Carrier ...
  • Overview of Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Safety Training Research for New Entrant Motor Carriers Research Brief
    Overview of Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Safety Training Research for New Entrant Motor Carriers [Research Brief]
    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
    2015-07-01 | PDF
    In 2002, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) issued the New Entrant Program Interim Final Rule in response to the requirement in the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999. The requirement in the Act was based on research findings indicating that new entrant motor carrier operations are significantly less-safe than experie ...
  • Using Driver Simulators to Measure the Impact of Distracted Driving on Commercial Motor Vehicle Operators Research Brief
    Using Driver Simulators to Measure the Impact of Distracted Driving on Commercial Motor Vehicle Operators [Research Brief]
    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
    2015-06-01 | PDF
    This study addresses the impact of various distractions on commercial motor vehicle (CMV) operators. Using state-of-the-art driving simulators in realistic traffic, this project focused on CMV operator performance as drivers experienced distractions in several driving scenarios. Scenarios placed drivers in situations such as congested traffic, high ...
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