Latest American Transportation Research Institute Stories
ARLINGTON, Va., April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) today released findings from the first phase of a two-part research initiative aimed at assessing the use of navigation systems in large trucks. This first phase of the research, which analyzed survey data from over 800 drivers and carriers, identifies different systems and how they are used, as well as industry perceptions of navigation system effectiveness. "This...
ARLINGTON, Va., April 1, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) today launched a survey to update the 2012 Operational Costs of Trucking report. The brief on-line survey seeks to capture basic cost information from for-hire carriers such as driver pay, fuel costs, insurance premiums and lease or purchase payments. Carriers are asked to provide full year 2012 cost per mile and/or cost per hour data. The results of this survey, combined...
ARLINGTON, Va., March 27, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) today launched its third annual commercial driver survey to identify CSA impacts on trucking operations, as well as driver perceptions and attitudes toward FMCSA's maturing regulatory program. This survey, which specifically seeks commercial driver input, will be compared and contrasted with data collected in 2011 and 2012 - where ATRI received responses from a...
ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) today released an analysis evaluating operational impacts on business and carrier supply chains that have occurred since the full rollout of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Compliance, Safety Accountability program in December 2010. ATRI's latest CSA report examines two years' worth of data collection from motor carriers, commercial drivers, freight shippers...
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI), the trucking industry's not-for-profit research organization, today unveiled its list of the top ten critical issues facing the North American trucking industry. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's (FMCSA) Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) tops the list for the first time in ATRI's annual survey of more than 4,000 trucking industry executives. The complete...
ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) today released a report examining the relationship between motor carrier CSA scores and actual crash involvement. The research expands upon previous investigations by introducing a sophisticated statistical analysis that provides more accurate and direct results. ATRI assessed all five public BASICs, finding a strong safety relationship for the Unsafe Driving, Fatigued...
ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) has released the findings of its 2012 update to An Analysis of the Operational Costs of Trucking. The research, which identifies trucking costs from 2008 to 2011 derived directly from fleet operations, provides carriers with an important high-level benchmarking tool and government agencies with real world data for future infrastructure improvement analyses. The average...
ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) today released the industry's first major comparative analysis of Roll Stability Systems (RSS) based on carrier operational data. ATRI's study analyzed crash rates, crash costs, and technology costs for Roll Stability Control (RSC) and Electronic Stability Control (ESC) systems compared to vehicles without any RSS technology. The National Highway Traffic Safety...
ARLINGTON, Va., May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) today released findings from the first phase of a three-part research effort aimed at mitigating costly large truck rollovers. ATRI's first phase produced a database of locations with the highest frequency of large truck rollovers using over 50,000 crash records from a nine-year period. The database, which covers 31 states, provides valuable insight into the...
ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) has updated the listing of state and local idling regulations found on its website, www.atri-online.org. The updated listing is provided in two forms, a cab card which can be downloaded and carried in the glove box of a truck and the online compendium which provides links to each regulation. Two newly enacted regulations are highlighted as well as an upcoming change to an...
