Traffic Safety and Management News
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
Safety system market poised for growth, study shows
May 14, 2012
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, ...









