Florida Department of

TRANSPORTATION

Office of Policy Planning

1. Evaluation of Driver Behavior to Hydroplaning in the State of Florida Using Driving Simulation - This project, through a driving simulator, investigates patterns of driver behavior during various rainfall events using different roadway geometries.
2. Motor Vehicle Crashes, Injuries, and Deaths in Relation to Driver Age: United States, 1995 – 2010 - This study examines changes over time in the numbers and rates of police-reported crashes involving passenger vehicles and the numbers and rates of injuries and deaths that occurred in those crashes.
3. Strategies for Defining the Core Federal Role in Surface Transportation - This report summarizes a workshop discussion on a few topics:
   • The Current Debate over Defining the Federal Role in Transportation and Applying Performance Measures Is Not New;
   • Americans Do Not Pay the Full Cost of Transportation;
   • Current Federal Policy Is Broken; and
   • The Core Federal System Should Be Re-Sized.
4. Highway Safety: Selected Cases of Commercial Drivers with Potentially Disqualifying Impairments - This report describes (1) key controls designed to prevent medically unfit or impaired commercial drivers from operating commercial vehicles and (2) examples of commercial drivers with potentially disqualifying impairments related to epilepsy, drugs, or alcohol.
5. PIARC Reports
   • Improvements in safe working on roads - This guide focuses on safety of both workers and road users in construction zones. It addresses:
     • The roles and responsibilities in the work zones;
     • Planning and design of work zones;
     • Safe and efficient operations of work zones;
     • Personnel guidance in work zones;
     • Typical work zones layout;
     • Checklists for work zones safety.
   • Best practices for road safety campaigns - The report presents key findings of a literature review of best practices for road safety campaigns, and relate these to actual road safety campaign practices by road administrations and authorities of fourteen countries who responded to a survey questionnaire.
6. Miscellaneous Reports
   • Dispelling the Myths: Toll and Fuel Tax Collection Costs in the 21st Century - The report compares and contrasts toll collection costs and the costs of collecting fuel taxes.
   • Investigation of Pedestrian/Bicyclist Risk in Minnesota Roundabout Crossings - This report investigates pedestrian accessibility in Minnesota urban roundabouts, addressing complaints from pedestrians regarding safety and difficulties in crossing. It focuses on the experience of pedestrians and bicyclists utilizing crossings on roundabouts in the Twin Cities by investigating the conditions that could affect the yielding behavior of drivers and explores the relationships of several measurements related to the driver experience inside the roundabout with yielding behavior and pedestrian waiting time.
   • Closing the Power Plant Carbon Pollution Loophole: Smart Ways the Clean Air Act Can Clean Up America’s Biggest Climate Polluters - This study analyzes how CO₂ pollution standards for existing fossil fuel–fired power plants under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act could affect the power sector, emissions levels, and electricity costs for consumers and sets forth a policy proposal to decrease levels of CO₂ emissions and encourage the power sector’s transition to cleaner, lower-emitting generation with increased deployment of both supply- and demand-side energy efficiency.