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Activity Number: 102 - The Essential Role of Statistics for the Future of Mobility
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Monday, July 31, 2017 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Transportation Statistics Interest Group
Abstract #322094 View Presentation
Title: Data's Role in Motor Vehicle Traffic Safety
Author(s): Terry Shelton*
Companies: U.S. Department of Transportation
Keywords: transportation ; safety ; mobility ; automated vehicle ; traffic crashes
Abstract:

The downward trend of motor vehicle traffic crashes has been a remarkable success story of saving lives and preventing injuries on nation's highway. The underpinning of this success is a data-driven approach to tackle many traffic issues under NHTSA's leadership and the safety community's continuous efforts. Despite these efforts, 35,092 people died on United States' roadways in 2015 and 94% of traffic crashes can be attributed to human choices or errors. Traditional traffic safety data are from a wide variety of sources and cover areas of crash, roadway, vehicle, driver, citation, and EMS. As both automobile technology and communication innovation advance rapidly, transportation in the future will be very different than it is today. These changes require the transportation community to embrace the transformation and plan ahead to maximize these advancements to improve safety and mobility. This presentation will discuss the role of traditional traffic data in improving highway safety and the data needs for the future development of automated vehicles, roadway infrastructure, and other regulatory tools to ensure technologies are safely introduced and achieve their full potential


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