Road & Transportation Safety Center

How to create safer road work zones for workers, drivers and pedestrians.

In rainy, nighttime conditions, the pavement markings that define lanes can become difficult to see. Learn how pavement marking visibility plays a major role in helping drivers navigate, stay in their lanes, and get home safely.

This is how having front and back license plates makes a difference to public safety, law enforcement apprehension and state revenues

Roundabouts reduce the number of conflict points at intersections, which lowers the number of traffic accidents. Choose the right road signs and pavement markings for roundabouts.

Horizontal curves have higher crash rates than other highway segments. Learn how improving visibility on horizontal curves can improve driver safety.

To enhance roadway safety for human drivers, vehicles equipped with ADAS, and the driverless vehicles of the future, it’s important to understand how these vehicles will perceive and interpret their surroundings.

Bringing together standards and science for consistent, visible traffic control devices.

Help reduce traffic accidents at intersections by using traffic signal backplates with retroreflective borders. Highly visible traffic lights can alert distracted drivers.

Learn more about reducing traffic crashes through awareness, behavior and infrastructure.

To help increase road safety, consider putting your roads on a diet. A road diet reduces lanes of traffic to improve efficiency and help make roads safer for drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists.

Learn how reflective tape can help protect your bottom line

Learn more about the safety and effectiveness of roundabouts.

Discover questions to ask yourself, the sign printer manufacturer, the ink supplier, the protective overlay manufacturer, and more.

Learn about the shocking statistics of elderly drivers and see how you can help keep them safe.

Learn about the science behind aging eyes and the impact it could have on road safety.

From identification to personal expression, learn about the increase in vanity license plates.

Reflective sheeting performance graphics may be misleading. Learn what to watch for.

Learn about the FAST Act, its safety-related changes and what FAST Act funds can be used for.

Learn about black spots and ideal technologies for ensuring maximum reflectivity on dark roads.

Learn about V2I communications and how V2I technology can help increase safety, enhance mobility, and enable roadways of the future.

Learn about the science of pavement marking bead technology and why it matters in wet or dry conditions.

Healthy communities watch out for one another and enjoy using byways safely and responsibly.

Learn how signage, barricades and pavement markings keep you safe in temporary traffic control work zones.

The 2016 Traffic Safety Culture Index examines U.S. drivers’ attitudes and behaviors on distracted driving, impaired and drowsy driving and aggressive driving.

Here are 3 trends which impact road signs & traffic safety.

An intro to the science & technology of traffic signs & how it impacts road safety.

Find out about the physics of retroreflectivity, why luminance is an important performance measurement for signs, how angularity affects sign visibility, and what defines ASTM sheeting types.

Studies show that upgrading to ASTM D4956 Type XI – compliant sheeting can help reduce crashes and has a positive cost-to-benefit ratio.