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This booklet provides information and guidance to motorcoach drivers who have the challenge of understanding and properly handling complex mechanical devices, technologies, and safety related systems. Each section of this booklet concludes with important summary points. Always refer to the...
A new study confirms that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Safety Measurement System (SMS) is more effective at identifying commercial bus and truck companies of all sizes for targeted enforcement than the system it replaced.
To develop low-cost wireless transmission technologies to transmit trailer vehicle identification numbers (VINs) to the tractor and enable the tractor to keep track dynamically of the VIN stack and order of the trailer(s) attached to it.
CSTIMS was Web-based software-as-a-service that allowed jurisdictional motor vehicle administrators to use an electronic, automated system to manage CDL skills testing. The system provided the ability to register testing organizations, record information pertinent to examiners (e.g.,...
Findings from past research were used to develop a set of IBSS performance specifications that were “outcome-based” relative to the system’s ability to determine defects from a given group of real-world vehicles.
Between 2007 and 2009, FMCSA awarded two contracts for field operational tests (FOTs) of two separate technologies: video imaging (with trip-line algorithm) and magnetometry (with threshold algorithm). Test results showed that video imaging did not meet the performance requirements at nighttime...
This program is established with a 5 year cooperative agreement to conduct three technology evaluation studies using naturalistic driving experimentation. The first study assessed a blindspot object detection and warning system and has been completed. The second study currently underway is...