According to a new AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety survey released this month, most drivers (95.1 percent) perceive driving after drinking as very or extremely dangerous. However, almost 11 percent admitted to having done so in the past 30 days. Meanwhile, the survey found that 70 percent of respondents consider driving within an hour after using marijuana to be very or extremely dangerous. But more than 7 percent of respondents personally approve of driving shortly after u

We've been promised self-driving cars, and we've seen driverless Teslas and other experiments pop up in our news feeds. But how soon can we expect autonomous vehicles and other transportation-centric tech developments to arrive on a mass scale? These industry insiders shared with us a realistic barometer for the future of transportation through a tech lens. Here's what they said: 1. Susan Shaheen, Ph.D., Co-Director of the Transportation Sustainability Resource Center at UC-B

A coalition of transportation construction industry and the business community this week announced the start of a new advertising campaign targeting Congressional members and touting the urgent need for investment in modern infrastructure. The Transportation Construction Coalition and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce-led Americans for Transportation Mobility issued a joint news release that said the campaign would lean heavily on social media to generate grassroots support and to

The Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Transportation and Safety this week held a hearing exploring the adoption of technology by transportation agencies and the private sector, and the effects those technologies have on the surface transportation network. Subcommittee Chair Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) opened the hearing explaining that “Technology is already changing how we move people and goods across this country. And there is potential for new technology to improve safety, efficien