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Leadership

Key personnel and a list of the program offices that make up the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration within the United States Department of Transportation Headquarters building in Washington, DC.

Intermodal Equipment Providers

On December 21, 2006, FMCSA published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to implement section 4118 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU). Section 4118 required FMCSA to issue regulations to "ensure that intermodal equipment...

Information Systems

Performance and Registration Information Systems Management (PRISM; Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks (CVISN)

Driver Distraction: Eye Glance Analysis and Conversation Workload

Data for this study was drawn from an existing naturalistic database from a vendor of onboard monitoring systems. The research project accomplished the following:

Analyzed voice recordings, made while driving, to determine if there was an objective measure of cognitive distraction....