TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine A2 - Lisa Staes A2 - Jodi Godfrey A2 - Jennifer Flynn A2 - Mitch Spicer A2 - Gennaro Saliceto A2 - Roberta Yegidis TI - Current Practices in the Use of Onboard Technologies to Avoid Transit Bus Incidents and Accidents DO - 10.17226/25716 PY - 2020 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25716/current-practices-in-the-use-of-onboard-technologies-to-avoid-transit-bus-incidents-and-accidents PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - Transit agencies around the country are facing the challenges of reducing transit bus collisions and the injuries, fatalities, and liability expenses associated with these collisions.The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's TCRP Synthesis 145: Current Practices in the Use of Onboard Technologies to Avoid Transit Bus Incidents and Accidents documents the current practices in the use of the various onboard technologies on transit buses to prevent incidents and accidents, with a primary objective of determining whether these technologies are effective in actual practice.The examination shows that many transit agencies are proactively instituting a number of approaches to address these collisions, including the piloting and use of collision avoidance technologies, such as forward collision warning (FCW), emergency braking, lane departure warning (LDW), and electronic stability control (ESC). ER -