VTTI Impacts Transportation Policy
VTTI has provided lawmakers the ability to use substantiated research to educate the population about driving while distracted. Photo caption: Thomas Dingus (left), director of the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, was honored May 8 as a White House Champion of Change. Dr. Dingus is pictured with Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood (right).
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Thomas Dingus (left), director of the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, was honored May 8 as a White House Champion of Change. The awards acknowledged those providing Transportation Technology Solutions for the 21st Century. Dr. Dingus is pictured with Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood (right).
VTTI Impacts Transportation Policy
VTTI has provided lawmakers the ability to use substantiated research to educate the population about driving while distracted. Photo caption: Thomas Dingus (left), director of the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, was honored May 8 as a White House Champion of Change. Dr. Dingus is pictured with Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood (right).
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Thomas Dingus (left), director of the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, was honored May 8 as a White House Champion of Change. The awards acknowledged those providing Transportation Technology Solutions for the 21st Century. Dr. Dingus is pictured with Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood (right).
White House to honor Virginia Tech Transportation Institute's Tom Dingus as 'Champion of Change'
Thomas Dingus, director of the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, will be honored May 8 by the White House as a Champion of Change, a group of Americans seen as making positive change. This year's theme is Transportation Technology Solutions for the 21st century.
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Virginia Tech Transportation Institute director Tom Dingus has led dozens of ground-breaking studies into transportation safety and improvement since becoming director of the institute in 1996.
Day or night, driving while tired a leading cause of accidents
April is Distracted Driver Awareness month and research demonstrates that fatigue is the leading form of distracted driving resulting in crashes and near crashes.
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The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute's 100-car naturalistic driving study documented that fatigue is the number one cause of driver distraction resulting in crashes and near crashes.
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Upcoming Conferences
- May 26-29, 2013 - ITS Canada Annual Conference
- May 27-30, 2013 - 23rd Enhanced Safety Vehicles Conference
- June 17-20, 2013 - 7th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment Training and Vehicle Design
- June 25, 2013 -The Tenth ACM International Workshop on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking, Systems, and Applications
- July 16-19, 2013 - 2013 Workshop on the Future of Road Vehicle Automation
- August 2013 - Roadway Safety Culture Summit
- August 13-15, 2013 - 1st International Symposium on Resilient Cognitive Systems
Click It or Ticket Campaign Begins: As members of the Blue Ridge Transportation Safety Board (BRTSB), VTTI researchers are supporting the National Click It or Ticket campaign (May 20 - June 2) designed to promote seat belt use. VTTI is proud to be a part of this safety campaign as the Institute is dedicated to saving lives in the transportation community.
Featured Researcher
Gregory Fitch is a senior research associate in the Center for Truck and Bus Safety at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, where he has been conducting human factors research pertaining to transportation safety since 2002. Read More