E-bikes can replace longer car trips and reduce vehicle miles traveled, but regulating devices alone won’t make riding safer. A September 2026 ITE Journal article applies the Safe System Approach to show why communities need both connected, low-stress networks and effective policies.
How can transportation professionals determine which safety strategies to prioritize? The Unified Framework for Safe System Implementation brings decades of safety research together to help agencies make more informed decisions. By connecting exposure, severity, and crash likelihood to different roadway contexts, the framework offers a practical way to prioritize strategies across planning, policy, design, and operations.
This ITE Technical brief explores how kinetic energy can add another dimension to roadway safety analysis, helping practitioners consider where conditions for serious harm may exist even before severe crash patterns emerge.
AI is giving transportation safety practitioners new ways to analyze data, detect near misses, and respond to risk before crashes happen. Real-world examples from Bellevue, WA and San Bernardino, CA show where AI-supported technology is delivering value—and where human judgment remains essential for turning data into responsible safety decisions.
Making streets safer takes more than individual projects. Our new Safe System approach toolkit, developed through NCHRP Research Report 1181, helps agencies integrate safety into policies, budgets, design standards, and land use decisions. Explore practical tools, real-world case studies, and new IIHS Safe System success stories that show how agencies are turning safety into standard practice.
What do San Francisco’s Van Ness BRT, New York’s congestion pricing, and Arlington’s intersection program have in common? Each pulls all three Safe System levers at once. We call that pattern a safety multiplier.