Maryland Tops List for Transportation Safety
Maryland topped a list of states that showed to have high transportation safety and enforcement performance standards, according to a new study unveiled by the American Transportation Research Institute.
The comparative analysis, published Oct. 21, sought to identify the top 10 states that demonstrated best overall safety and enforcement performance across a plurality of data metrics. Metrics included states with the most and fewest roadside inspections per million vehicle miles traveled, as well as the rate of crashes and violations per million vehicle miles traveled.
ATRI ranked Washington behind Maryland, followed by Nevada, Rhode Island and Montana. The next five were Connecticut, New Mexico, California, South Dakota, and Iowa.
The study is a follow up to ATRI’s recent look at enforcement disparities throughout the states.
“These 10 states epitomize what we would like to see in all 50 states in terms of commercial motor vehicle enforcement: a balanced approach that recognizes the importance of traffic enforcement and a focus on driver behaviors that have a relationship to truck crashes,” said Annette Sandberg, a member of ATRI’s board of directors and former administrator at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
American Trucking Associations President Bill Graves said, “The industry applauds these state enforcement agencies who, in partnership with their respective state trucking associations and members, have made highway safety and reduced truck crashes their top priority.”
