Santos Family Foundation/Volpe National Transportation Center
For more than 50 years, the U.S. DOT Volpe Center has been advancing transportation innovation for the public good. As the National Transportation Systems Center, our mission is to help the transportation community navigate its most challenging problems.
Sponsor: Santos Family Foundation/Volpe National Transportation Center
Faculty Advisor: Lawrence Neeley
Data Illuminators: Scalable Data Collection for Nighttime Crosswalk Lighting
Our SCOPE team aimed to provide a streamlined, efficient data collection method and analysis process to inform decisions of street lighting and pedestrian-vehicle safety teams for 2-3 municipalities in Massachusetts and beyond.
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Sponsor: Santos Family Foundation/Volpe National Transportation Center
Faculty Advisor: Lynn Andrea Stein
VIEW 2.0: Direct Vision Assessment System
Our SCOPE team collaborated with the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, the Santos Foundation, and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) to reinvent VIEW, a blind-zone measurement tool for vehicles and a crowd-sourced database of blind-zones created by the 2017-2018 SCOPE team. VIEW 2.0 will be used to help design, select, and deploy safer vehicles, demonstrating the importance of direct vision for traffic safety involving vulnerable road users.
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Sponsor: Santos Family Foundation/Volpe National Transportation Center
Faculty Advisor: Lynn Andrea Stein
National High-Injury Network Analysis Tool (NHAT)
Partnering with the Santos Family Foundation and the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, the team created a free national tool that allows communities to generate interactive HIN maps and understand the relationship between safety, equity, and other contextual factors.
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