The Transportation Safety Advancement Group (TSAG) offers our sincerest thoughts and condolences to the Prescott, Arizona Fire Department and to the families and friends of the Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew tragically lost in the in the Yarnell Hill fire of June 30, 2013. We mourn with the rest of the nation and are reminded of the heroism and bravery that firefighters demonstrate daily in Arizona and across the country.

TSAG Requests Proposals for Driver Distraction Project

The Transportation Safety Advancement Group is requesting proposals for a project on Device Distraction in Emergency Response Vehicles. This project will feature a white paper on current device distraction in police, fire, and EMS vehicles and possible solutions to this increasingly prominent issue. The "Distracted Driving RFP" is now closed and TSAG is reviewing submissions.

Working Together

Through formal alliances with like-interest stakeholder organizations, the Transportation Safety Advancement Group will leverage its knowledge base and its operating resources to more effectively and efficiently pursue its promoting technology for public safety objective. With its allied partners, TSAG will work to advance this national dialogue and more specifically to promote and optimize traveler and operator safety on our nation’s roadways.

You’re a Key Player

The Transportation Safety Advancement Group SEEKS YOUR INPUT to help us gain insight on policies, programs and projects relating to known and emerging TECHNOLOGIES for public safety. From your input, TSAG will prepare reports and provide FEEDBACK to the US Department of Transportation, ITS Joint Program Office.

To advance its public safety mission, TSAG is promoting a NATIONAL DIALOGUE on technologies for transportation and public safety. As this dialogue becomes increasingly active, TSAG will consolidate YOUR EXPERIENCES, successes, failures, and lessons-learned and will share this knowledge in an effort to enhance the safety of travelers on our nations highways.