The Illinois Center for Transportation at the University of Illinois has released a report that discusses safety at rail grade crossings including pedestrian and non-motorized user behavior and attitudes toward safety at such crossings.

The Global Road Safety Partnership has released a report that discusses the magnitude of pedestrian death and injury, key risk factors, and how to assess an area’s pedestrian safety situation.

The U.S. National Traffic Safety Highway Administration has released a fact sheet that details the numbers of cyclists killed and injured in motor vehicle traffic crashes in 2011.

The Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium has released a report that summarizes research conducted with a driving simulator and mobile eye-tracking equipment to study the effects that opposing traffic, walking direction of pedestrians, and the number of section heads with a flashing yellow arrow have on driver performance. This report is available without a fee after logging on to the site.

The European Commission has released a report that presents the results of a series of radar cross section laboratory measurements on pedestrian dummies and humans, including a description of the test set-up, the control software, and the frequency bands selected for the tests.

VTI—the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, has released a report that discusses how single bicycle accidents can be avoided and how the injuries from these accidents can be alleviated. This report is written in Swedish with an English summary.

The University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies has released a report that discusses whether smartphone GPS units or enhanced GPS units could be used to track and map the location of cyclists on streets.

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2316 consists of 15 papers that explore gap acceptance behavior; driving behavior in emergency situations; driver anticipation; phase transition models; integrated lane change models; models for pedestrian-vehicle interactions at road crossings; midblock pedestrian crossings; exit choice decisions during pedestrian evacuations of buildings; pedestrian movements in crowded networks; congestion effects on risk by experi...

The National Conference of State Legislatures has released a summary of states’ legislative action of occupant protection, distracted driving, driver licensing, impaired driving, aggressive driving, speed limits, motorcycle helmets, automated enforcement, school bus safety, and pedestrian and bicycle safety.

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2317 consists of 16 papers that explore the impact of bus rapid transit systems on road safety; busway design; buses as low-carbon mobility solution; motorized vehicle purchases; car ownership policies in megacities; models of auto and motorcycle ownership and mode choice; and the characteristics of mixed traffic on urban arterials. This issue of the TRR also examines bicycle equivalents for mopeds; impacts of red lig...