Weather and Climate Impacts on Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety

Rossetti, Michael; Johnsen, Michael

doi:10.21949/1502960

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Weather and Climate Impacts on Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety

2011-04-01
By Rossetti, Michael ; Johnsen, Michael

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Creators:

Rossetti, Michael ; Johnsen, Michael
Corporate Creators:

John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
Corporate Contributors:

United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
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Publication/ Report Number:

FMCSA-RRA-11-013
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21949/1502960
Resource Type:

Tech Report
Geographical Coverage:

United States
Corporate Publisher:

United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Abstract:

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has an interest in how adverse weather may influence trucking industry practices, and what climate change might mean for future FMCSA efforts to reduce weather-related crashes. Weather conditions influence commercial motor vehicle (CMV) operations and driver safety through wet pavement, impaired visibility, heavy precipitation, frozen precipitation, flooding, high winds, extremes of temperature, and other factors. Climate variability and climate change may also increase these exposures by affecting the distribution, frequency, or intensity of those weather events. Regional, State, and/or local impacts projected by climate change studies may have future implications for CMV safety. Should climate change result in more frequent or intense storms affecting CMVs, the historic decline in weather-related crashes may level off. This could pose challenges to FMCSA's primary mission, and the agency may need to explore different strategies for reducing weather-related crashes, such as education and training programs or technologies that could alert drivers of adverse weather conditions.
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https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/11531/dot_11531_DS1.pdf
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Volpe Center ; Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
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urn:sha256:26c85408c24338b08144c4c7686acf03cd021846c580e792988967dac9222046

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