Driver Distraction Report

The Transportation Safety Advancement Group (TSAG) asked the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) to produce a white paper to explore the technologies and required interactions with those technologies inside emergency response vehicles.  This paper also explored the problems generated by high cognitive workload and distraction and how these problems impact driving performance and safety. The paper is available here. 
 

Working Together


Strategic Alliances
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


Give us your input
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.

 

Our 8 Communities of Interest

TSAG is comprised of sixteen members representing eight communities of interest.
  • Law Enforcement
    Primary authority in preserving incident scenes, enforcing laws & maintaining public order
  • Fire & Rescue
    Preventing and suppressing fire, providing primary medical assistance, protecting property
  • Emergency Medical Services
    Providing on-scene aid and medical care and treatment and transportation of injured victims
  • Emergency Management
    Multi-discipline management of incident impacts. Evacuation management and public information
  • Emergency Communications
    Maintain voice, data, and video communications for effectively serving incident scene management
  • Technology & Telematics
    Advancing vehicle and roadway and roadside technologies to support ITS and safety systems
  • Transportation Operations
    Manage highways and transportation systems through surveillance, guidance and control systems
  • Academic & Research
    Intellectual development, knowledge transfer and testing of innovative technologies and transportation policy
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Promoting Technology for Public Safety

The Transportation Safety Advancement Group (TSAG) is an assembly of multi-discipline professionals sharing a common concern for transportation and public safety. TSAG serves as a forum for providing technologies for public safety input and guidance to the US Department of Transportation, ITS Joint Program Office. TSAG members are dedicated to enhancing traveler safety on our nation’s roadways through the application of advanced technologies and the promotion of inter-discipline and inter-agency cooperation.

The ITS Joint Program Office serves as the principal guide on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) applications for transportation operations and management and on transportation safety technology policy.TSAG members are representatives of key interest-communities, including Fire & Rescue, Emergency Communications, Law Enforcement, Emergency Medical Services, Transportation Operations, Emergency Management, Technology & Telematics, and Academic & Research. TSAG members are expert practitioners from public and private transportation operations and public safety arenas and serve an official outreach and knowledge transfer function on behalf of the ITS Joint Program Office.

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What Do You Think?

Question: Of the TSAG Communities of Interest, which offers the greatest return on (technology) investment?

Please elaborate on your choice through our “Share Your Input” page.