Examining the Implications of Legislation and Enforcement on Electronic Device Use While Driving (BTS-03)

Federal Research Projects

January 31, 2025

This research project developed a library of resources and best practices that states and other stakeholders can use to enact or revise their laws and enhance enforcement and education efforts.

Project Overview

This research reviewed distracted driving laws, enforcement and public education practices across the United States and Canada to develop a library of resources and best practices that states and other stakeholders can use to enact or revise their laws and enhance enforcement and education efforts.

Related Issues

Distracted Driving

Related Resources

Federal Research Projects

January 31, 2025

Strategies to Address Misreporting of Impaired and Distracted Driving in Motor Vehicle Crashes (BTS-20)

Project Underway: This project will develop procedures to assess the existence and extent of under/over-reporting of impaired and distracted driving in crash data and to propose a methodology to improve the reporting of impaired and distracted driving in motor vehicle crashes.

Media Coverage

January 17, 2025

Distracted Driving Is a Major Killer in Texas. Meet the Teens Trying to Stop It.

Teens are taking to the road every day in Texas as newly-minted drivers and passengers. And safety activists are trying new strategies to ensure they get home alive.

January 9, 2025

Informing the Selection of Countermeasures by Evaluating, Analyzing, and Diagnosing Contributing Factors that Lead to Crashes (BTS-14)

Recognizing that vehicle and mode mix matters in the success of investment strategies, this project assessed best practices in crash diagnosis across crash types in modal diverse contexts.