MDOT research receives national recognition : research update.
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2016-10-01
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- Research projects
- Awards
- Benefit cost analysis
- Safety engineering
- Warning signs
- Highway safety organizations
- Highway safety
- Bridges
- Strategic Highway Research
- Program (SHRP2)
- National Cooperative Highway Research
- Program (NCHRP)
- Transportation Research Board (TRB)
- American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)
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Abstract:To maintain a high-quality transportation ; system for Michigan’s traveling ; public, MDOT makes a sustained commitment ; to excellence in transportation ; research. That commitment includes both ; developing solutions to meet Michigan’s ; transportation needs and sharing the ; results nationally so that other states can ; learn from efforts in which MDOT has ; taken the lead. ; MDOT won national recognition for ; its research in 2016, earning its third “Sweet ; Sixteen” award in five years from the ; American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). ; AASHTO’s Research Advisory Committee ; members — state DOT research directors ; — annually cast their votes among ; more than a hundred submissions to ; honor 16 standout research projects. ; This year’s award-winning project ; evaluated the safety impacts and cost-effectiveness ; of engineering improvements ; designed to reduce crashes among ; elderly drivers. Researchers compared ; crash data before and after MDOT began ; implementing changes in 2004.
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Main Document Checksum:urn:sha256:5c4f501944581445e68ec8e4caf26f173b7d782b47a209c521efa794a8af329f