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http://onlinepubs.trb.org...ces/2011/RSS/2/Tarko,A.pdf

More than 5,000 people died in large truck crashes in the United States in 2006. Recognizing the seriousness of this situation, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) developed the Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks (TACT) program, a traffic enforcement program that uses communication, enforcement, and evaluation activities to reduce crashes with involvement of commercial motor vehicles (CMV) and resulted fatalities and injuries. FMCSA encourages states to apply the TACT program to roads that are experiencing an excessive number of injuries and fatalities from crashes between cars and trucks. This paper presents the analysis results of the TACT project in order to investigate its effectiveness. Traffic data and information regarding aggressive driving behavior in Indianapolis were collected. There were three phases: the pre-TACT phase, the phase when a media campaign was conducted and the police enforcement took place, and the after the campaign and enforcement phase. The data were extracted from video images and included traffic volumes, speeds, time headways, and several types of aggressive driving behavior. Furthermore, a total of 1,047 surveys were collected by the police officers during the police enforcement phase of the project. The survey data were analyzed to assess the effect that TACT may have had on aggressive behavior characterized by noting the distance left by the drivers when they passed other vehicles. The results showed that the TACT program, particularly its police enforcement component, was successful in curbing aggressive interactions between cars and trucks during the program period.

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01501394

English

18p

2011

3rd International Conference on Road Safety and Simulation

Digital/other

Figures; Maps; Photos; Tables

Automobiles; Fatalities; Injuries; Traffic data; Traffic law enforcement; Trucks

Aggressive driving

Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks; U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration; U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Indianapolis (Indiana)

Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor; I85: Safety Devices used in Transport Infrastructure

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

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