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Illinois DOT, Illinois State Police heighten safety belt enforcement

May 16, 2012

The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) and the Illinois State Police (ISP) plan to heighten enforcement efforts leading up and through the Memorial Day holiday weekend, IDOT announced on May ...

More states eye banning texting while driving

May 14, 2012

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Ohio, South Carolina and Missouri each have different bills in the works to ban texting and handheld phone use while driving.

Safety system market poised for growth, study shows

May 14, 2012

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The continuing problem of too many Class 4-8 truck safety technologies chasing too few consumer dollars has stalled their market penetration, according to a report by Frost & Sullivan. However, ...

FHWA final rule eliminates traffic sign replacement deadlines

May 14, 2012

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The U.S. Department of Transportation on Thursday, May, 10, announced the elimination of 46 regulations on traffic signs to provide more flexibility for state and local governments, including allowing communities ...

FMCSA unveils multilingual bus safety checklist

May 14, 2012

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has unveiled its multilingual Bus Safety Consumer Checklist in eight different languages: Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, French, German, Japanese and Vietnamese. Free to ...

N.J. DOT launches Clean Up NJ initiative

May 03, 2012

New Jersey Department of Transportation Commissioner James Simpson on May 2 launched New Jersey’s Adopt-A-Highway program to fight litter and keep New Jersey highways beautiful. The event, held at the Coca-Cola ...

Telvent rolls out Saudi Arabia’s first smart transportation system

April 29, 2012

Telvent has completed implementation of the company’s intelligent transportation system, Telvent SmartMobility Road Suite, on King Abdullah Road in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This is the first smart transportation system to be ...

ARTBA: Innovation ‘driving force’ to reduce roadway construction zone accidents

April 26, 2012

Innovation should be the driving force behind creation of new strategies to help reduce the nearly 600 deaths and 40,000 injuries that occur annually in roadway construction zones.  That’s the ...

68 percent of highway contractors had vehicle crash into work zone

April 26, 2012

Sixty-eight percent of the nation’s highway contractors had motor vehicles crash into their construction work zones during the past year, according to the results of a new highway work zone ...

Road industry groups align to reduce construction zone injuries, deaths

April 23, 2012

The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) and industry allies on April 19 renewed their commitment to working with the federal government to help reduce the number of injuries ...

Idaho, Alaska legislatures ban handheld texting while driving

April 23, 2012

While truckers nationwide already are prohibited from texting while driving, Idaho has become the 37th state to bar all motorists from doing so, and similar legislation awaits Alaska Gov. Sean ...

RoadSafe Traffic Systems appoints new CFO

April 19, 2012

RoadSafe Traffic Systems has appointed John P. O’Brien III as chief financial officer. O’Brien, who has more than 25 years of experience as a financial executive in the engineering/construction, electronics distribution, ...
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