The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that synthesizes information about travelers’ information needs and current practices for information dissemination related to nonrecurring events. This report discusses user needs, best practices, data collection and information dissemination technologies, and knowledge gaps relating to traveler information.

The New Zealand Transport Agency has released a report that determines how people’s use of the internet could influence transportation demand in New Zealand. This report focuses on two main areas of change through the internet: the direct effects on transportation demand, and the changing nature of the physical workplace.

The Illinois Center for Transportation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has released a report that analyzes data from six intersections in Illinois that deployed adaptive signal technology. This report evaluates the volume, delay, and queue length data from before deployment to one year after implementation in order to understand the system’s contribution to safety and operatio...

The Connecticut Department of Transportation has released a report that identifies how to improve Connecticut’s crash data collection for serious injury and fatal motor vehicle collisions. This report focuses on harnessing data from an Event Data Recorder – an automotive black box – to provide a more comprehensive snapshot of an entire crash event.

The Institute for Transportation at Iowa State University has released a report that establishes the Iowa Department of Transportation open traffic data service, which can allow vendors and agencies to provide near real-time, proactive alerts to commercial drivers regarding traffic conditions along their routes. This open data service provides operations-related data to any commercial, public, ...

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development has released a report that discusses the development of a driving simulator test bed to investigate the impact of three connected vehicle safety applications on driving behavior. This report focuses on blind spot warning, forward collision warning, and do-not-pass warning applications on human subjects in the Louisiana State University ...

The University of California at Berkeley has released a report that presents an evaluation framework for assessing technological impacts within transportation-related city projects. This report focuses on how data can improve safety, equity, environment, energy, and congestion.

The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) has released a report that synthesizes information about aerial or spatial data sources to determine if these data meet MnDOT’s mapping needs. MnDOT aims to reduce the cycle time for collecting road data and is therefore interested in accessing other sources of data.

TRB's E-Circular 232: Automated Vehicle Symposium 2017: Summary of a Symposium highlights the themes from an event that took place on July 11–13, 2017 in San Francisco, California. The event explored the development, testing, building, and deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs). The 2017 AVS provided the opportunity for communication, collaboration, and information sharing on a wide range of t...

The Minnesota Department of Transportation has released a report that determines the feasibility of in-vehicle dynamic curve-speed warnings as deployed on a smartphone app. Lane-departure crashes at horizontal curves represent a significant portion of fatal crashes on rural Minnesota roads.