Federal Transit Administration Awards research grant to the University of South Florida to support worker safety

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On August 7, 2023, CUTR was awarded a $500,000 contract to perform the Transit Rider and Worker Safety Research project. USDOT has established strategic goals and objectives, which include safety, economic strength and global competitiveness, transformation, and organizational excellence. These objectives drive the “transformational investments” under USDOT’s safety goal: “Make our transportation system safer for…

An empirical analysis of how asleep/fatigued driving-injury severities have changed over time

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Abstract Asleep/fatigued driving has proven to be a serious and persistent highway-safety problem. This study investigates aspects of this problem by studying the temporal changes in driver-injury severities in single-vehicle crashes that involve asleep/fatigued driving. To do this, random parameters logit models with unobserved heterogeneity in means and variances were estimated to compare injury-severities in…