Statistics help tell stories, and one often touted by technologists and engineers and police officers and even the federal government told a tale. The statistic: 94 ...

The field of highway geometric design and safety analysis focuses on optimising road layouts to ensure safety whilst maintaining efficient transportation networks. Traditionally, deterministic design ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tanya Mohn reports on road safety, sustainable transport, and cycling. “The United States is heading in the wrong direction when ...

“Leap Day” was a bad day to be out for a walk. On the evening of Feb. 29, a pedestrian was hit by a car and killed on Route 372 in Cromwell, and another was killed on the Berlin Turnpike in Newington.

Matt Keenan was an experienced cyclist. He knew the best bike routes around San Diego, and bought the brightest lights for his bike. None of that was enough to keep him alive. Keenan was killed by a ...

The Federal Highways Administration (FHWA) defines a “Clear Zone” as an unobstructed, traversable roadside area that allows a driver to stop safely or regain control of a vehicle that has left the ...

A working group commissioned to study efforts to design safer streets in North Texas found the city of Dallas lacks consistency in its roadway design policies and sometimes fails to follow its own ...

Stop us if you’ve heard this before: City Hall is spending taxpayer dollars on a last-minute redesign of a smart road improvement project that had been years in the making. This time the project is ...