Federal Research Projects

June 24, 2025

Assessing Effects of Speed Camera Programs on Pedestrian and Bicycle Crashes (BTS-47)

This project will explore how speed camera programs effect pedestrian and bicycle crashes, including downstream effects beyond speed camera locations.

June 24, 2025

Overcoming Challenges to Enforcement of Micromobility Traffic Laws and Reporting of Micromobility Crashes (BTS-46)

This project will look at the challenges law enforcement face in managing micromobility-related incidents and develop ideas to improve practices.

June 24, 2025

Quantifying Effectiveness of Behavioral Countermeasures to Develop Crash Modification Factors (BTS-45)

This project will develop a methodology to evaluate behavioral traffic safety countermeasures, with a focus on the potential to applying crash modification factors (CMFs) to safety projects.

June 24, 2025

Causal Factors Associated with Higher Crash Rates Among Young Drivers that Delay Licensure (BTS-44)

This project seeks to identify why drivers who delay licensure until age 18+ have higher crash risks and whether driver training and-or GDL requirements can reduce this risk.

June 24, 2025

Effects of Pre-hospital Blood Programs and Improved EMS Response Time on the Risk of Motor Vehicle Crash Mortality (BTS-43)

This project will seek to verify the estimate that 40 percent of people killed in motor vehicle crashes were alive at the scene and determine if improvements in pre-hospital care would increase survivability.

April 15, 2025

Outcomes of Variability in Teen Driving Experience and Exposure: Evidence from the Naturalistic Driving Study (BTS-23)

Project Complete: The analysis considered changes in driver behavior and subsequent crash risk, and includes recommendations/strategies for improving teen driver safety.

January 1, 2025

The Future of Automated Traffic Enforcement and Public Acceptance (BTS-42)

Project Underway: The objectives of this research are to conduct a comprehensive assessment of automated traffic law enforcement to assist in the public policy discussion of the future of traffic enforcement across the nation and develop a toolkit for state highway safety offices and other stakeholders.

January 1, 2025

The Future Use of Law Enforcement Personnel and Traffic Safety Enforcement (BTS-41)

Project Underway: The objective of this research is to provide public policy guidance for decision makers on the role of law enforcement in traffic safety enforcement.

January 1, 2025

Workplace-Based Approaches to Improve Driver Behavior and Reduce Crashes (BTS-40)

Project Underway: The objectives of this research are to identify resources that utilize countermeasures proven most effective in raising awareness of the risk of motor vehicle crashes both on and off the job and provide actionable program tools.

January 1, 2025

The Last Impaired Mile: Challenges of Impaired Mobility in a Multimodal World (BTS-39)

Project Underway: The objectives of this research are to develop an improved understanding of the scope of the “last mile” problem in multimodal environments, explore what could be altered to change driver behavior and develop a toolkit of practical strategies.

January 1, 2025

Slow Down Move Over Best Practices (BTS-38)

Project Underway: The objectives of this research are to 1) understand the current state of practice and legal nuances that differ among jurisdictions and 2) develop a toolkit of practical strategies for SHSOs and other stakeholders to effectively communicate the goals of implementation and requirements for drivers to realize safety improvements.

January 1, 2024

How to Reach the Last of the Seat Belt Use Holdouts (BTS-35)

Project Underway: This project will design and conduct research on the remaining fraction of Americans who do not use seat belts, with the goal of identifying practical, actionable countermeasures that can be implemented by state highway safety offices and their partners to motivate the last seat belt use holdouts to buckle up.