2024

The Federal Highway Administration recently completed an international study of approaches to reduce pedestrian fatalities and injuries on urban arterials. In this workshop, we will take a deep dive into the study findings regarding key innovations leading to major successes in preventing pedestrian fatalities, including road safety audits and other safe system approaches. We will organize breakouts around these key practices to discuss barriers and opportunities to extend implementation in the United States and worldwide.

It is assumed pedestrians and cyclists can be seen by drivers, but there are few studies that delineate these perceptual limitations in vivo. Besides the obvious safety issues, seeing a road user directly impacts driver behavior, framing the scale of urban space. This workshop is designed as a research matchmaker to examine this topic.  In-silo teams will collaboratively identify the critical research questions, explore “pedestrian in the simulator” technologies, and identify other data sources.  Teams will then reassemble to draft new research proposals for this safe systems issue. 

New data sources and advancements have made data critical for infrastructure owners and operators to manage and improve system operations. Federal, state, and regional organizations have deployed various types of exchanges to make data accessible. Participants will learn about current activities, identify the benefits and drawbacks of various models, define operational use cases, and explore how data exchanges fit within the national roadway digital infrastructure to identify actions and research needs.

This workshop will identify and compile information and practices to assist agencies with finding opportunities to improve transportation management system (TMS) capabilities and performance. The expected outcomes from the small group breakout sessions conducted during this workshop will explore and identify opportunities to ensure TMSs are meeting agency objectives, performance expectations, desired functions and services, and capabilities to meet the needs and expectations of other agencies, systems, service providers, or customers. This workshop proposes 3 processes for discussion: (1) preparing for and conducting a TMS assessment, (2) assessing TMS capabilities and performance, and (3) identifying opportunities for improving TMSs.

This workshop presents a selection of plenary talks and breakout sessions from ARTS23.  The topics and speakers are selected with the objective of providing annual meeting participants with depth of insight into a range of current automated vehicle challenges and opportunities.  ARTS23 was held in San Francisco amidst controversy over the city's fleets of "robotaxis" and during widely covered public hearings on AV commercial vehicle testing and operations.  The agenda for this workshop reflects some of those controversies.

Bicycle and pedestrian counts are foundational for monitoring active travel on a network. However, counts are only available at select locations, leaving volumes on most of the network unknown. Emerging data sources combined with traditional counts may improve network-wide estimation, but questions remain about the quality, accuracy, management, and methods to be used for estimating volumes. This workshop will examine data quality and management, explore data fusion, and discuss future needs.

This workshop will feature panels and discussion in the fields of Data Analysis and Visualization, Public Engagement, Project Prioritization and Implementation, and Organizational Management and how they integrate equity into transportation safety. They will present how they address barriers and identify solutions in historical disadvantaged communities and how collaboration and organizational programs identify equitable and effective safety interventions. The workshop will be an interactive opportunity for participants to brainstorm and contribute ideas for other strategies.