Date/Time | Presenter/Affiliation | Description/Duration |
| 3/24/2009 1:00 p.m. eastern | Bill Bannister
Analysis Division | Overview of FMCSA Analysis Division Projects and Programs
This webinar will feature an update on the FMSCA Analysis Division, which provides the transportation industry and the public with analytical reports on trends, costs, and fatalities and injuries in large truck and bus crashes. The Division also monitors data quality to ensure an accurate measurement of safety performance and prepares all the economic and environmental analyses for FMCSA's significant rulemakings to ensure changes to motor carrier regulations are based on sound analysis and data. Don’t miss this chance to hear Analysis Division Chief Bill Bannister and members of the Analysis Division team give an overview and answer questions about current projects and programs
60 minutes |
| 3/11/2009 11:00 a.m. eastern | Ralph Craft
Analysis Division | FMCSA Truck and Bus Crash Facts
Truck and bus crash trends over the past 10 years indicate that fatalities in large truck crashes have consistently declined during this period despite an increase of the number of large trucks on our Nation’s highways. Speaker Dr. Ralph Craft has managed the Large Truck Crash Causation Study since its beginning in 2000. His dynamic presentation includes the number of truck crashes, fatalities, crash rates, truck types, crash types, and limited data on non-truck crashes, and he will take questions from the audience at the end. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about truck and bus crash trends over the past 10 years!
60 minutes |
| 3/2/2009 1:00 p.m. eastern | Quon Kwan,Technology Division
/ Phil Liggins
Lewis-Clark State College Motor Safety Training Center | Use of a Skid Pad for Training Truck Drivers: The Lewis-Clark State College Project
FMCSA issued a grant to fund the development of a driving track known as a skid pad at the Lewis-Clark State College (LCSC) North Lewiston Training Facility in Idaho. The recently-completed skid pad—a paved surface for exercising driving maneuvers involving skidding, jack knifing, and other forms of loss of control of a vehicle—provides a cost-effective facility for hands-on training in accident avoidance maneuvers. In this webinar, Phil Liggins, coordinator of the LCSC Motor Safety Training Center, will present details about the safety training for bus and commercial motor vehicle drivers that this facility offers through controlled “adverse” weather situations, including ice and rain, as well as faulty braking systems, tire blowouts and anti-skid equipment failure. This is the only training facility of its type in the Northwest.
90 minutes |
| 12/29/2008 1:00 p.m. eastern | Julie Lane
Technology Division | CVISN Deployment Grant Program 2009
FMCSA has announced the availability of FY 2009 Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks (CVISN) Deployment grant funding for States and the District of Columbia to deploy, operate, and maintain elements of their CVISN programs. This webinar provides information on the CVISN deployment grant, eligibilty for funds, and the application process.
60 minutes |
| 11/25/2008 1:00 p.m. eastern | Julie Lane
Technology Division | CVISN: Encouraging Motor Carrier Participation and Outreach by States
FMCSA has carefully tracked the deployment of the Commercial Vehicle Information Systems & Networks (CVISN) program in all States and has learned about the benefits of CVISN e-credentialing and state-based e-screening for both States and motor carriers. This webinar will address how States can reach out to and encourage motor carriers to use CVISN-related systems. Julie Lane of the ART Technology Division will highlight the benefits of CVISN for States and motor carriers and illustrate the successes some States have experienced. Suggested messages and delivery mechanisms that have proven successful for States in the past will be presented as examples of communications tools other States can use to expand their own programs.
60 minutes |
| 11/20/2008 1:00 p.m. eastern | Betsy Benkowski
Analysis Division | Safety Data Improvement Program Grant Funding for 2009
Funding for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Safety Data Improvement Program is available to help States improve the accuracy, timeliness, and quality of their traffic safety records, with an emphasis on improving large truck and bus data reported to FMCSA. High-quality, timely data in each of these areas are crucial to FMCSA’s mission of improving commercial motor vehicle safety in the U.S. Participants will learn where to locate the full application and instructions for how to apply using Grants.gov.
90 minutes |
| 10/29/2008 1:00 p.m. eastern | Chris Flanigan
Technology Division | Integrated Vehicle-Based Safety Systems Initiative
The goal of the Integrated Vehicle-Based Safety Systems (IVBSS) initiative is to demonstrate technologies needed to equip both light vehicles and heavy trucks with advanced driver assistance systems designed to help drivers avoid the most common types of deadly crashes: forward collision, lane change/merge, and road departure. Its purpose is to develop information on how best to communicate warnings from an integrated system covering multiple hazards to the driver. To this end, objective tests and criteria for performance of systems that simultaneously address the three crash modes have been developed. A field test of an integrated system in ten heavy trucks to determine both the safety benefits of the system and driver behavior/acceptance will soon begin. In this webinar, Chris Flanigan of the ART Technology Division will give an overview of the heavy truck portion of the IVBSS program.
90 minutes |
| 10/15/2008 1:00 p.m. eastern | Dr. Ron Knipling
Virginia Tech Transportation Institute | Large Truck Crash Causation Study Combination-Unit and Single-Unit Truck Crash Statistics
Data from the Large Truck Crash Causation Study (LTCCS) were used to compare the crashes involving Combination-Unit Trucks (CUTs) to those of Single-Unit Trucks (SUTs). Forty-four variables relating to crash characteristics, conditions of occurrence, key causal variables, and associated factors, including those relating to driver fatigue and Hours-of-Service, were examined. In this webinar, Dr. Ron Knipling of the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute will discuss how the LTCCS statistics were disaggregated and analyzed. He will provide details about the results which indicate CUT and SUT crashes were more similar than different, and that crash characteristics had stronger associations with causality than did vehicle type.
90 minutes |
| 9/29/2008 1:00 p.m. eastern | Julie Lane
Technology Division | Benefits of the Commercial Vehicle Information Systems & Networks (CVISN) Program
The CVISN program is designed to improve commercial vehicle safety and mobility and to reduce public- and private-sector costs associated with the regulation of the commercial vehicle industry. Every state has deployed some aspect of the CVISN architecture and some states have been fully compliant with CVISN for nearly ten years. This webinar, presented by Julie Lane of the ART Technology Division, will illustrate the preliminary results of the recently-completed Evaluation of the National CVISN Deployment Program and the completed CVISN business cases. She will also highlight the safety and operational benefits of CVISN's three program areas, as well as the costs associated with states’ implementation of the CVISN architecture.
60 minutes |
| 9/10/2008 1:00 p.m. eastern | Chris Flanigan
Technology Division | Employer Notification Service State Pilot Test
FMCSA requires carriers to check their drivers’ commercial driver’s license (CDL) status annually. Drivers must report CDL changes within 30 days and suspensions within one day. The Employer Notification System (ENS) is a software tool that closes this reporting gap by allowing employers to register their drivers and be notified when a driver’s CDL status changes or is suspended. A prototype ENS was pilot tested in the States of Colorado and Minnesota from December 2006 to July 2008 for the purpose of examining feasibility issues related to national deployment. In this webinar, issues such as implementation costs, loss of State revenues, legal issues, and competing priorities examined during the ENS pilot tests will be discussed, as well as the next steps toward attaining national deployment.
90 minutes |