What's New

Internet Assistance for Rural Law Enforcement Agencies
This Internet Project provides toll-free dial-up access and e-mail capability to rural and tribal law enforcement agencies nationwide. Funded by the Office of Justice Programs’ Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, the Internet project is administered by the National Center for Rural Law Enforcement (NCRLE), University of Arkansas System.

Rural Safety Innovation Program
The goal of the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Rural Safety Innovation Program is to improve rural road safety by assisting rural communities in addressing highway safety problems and by providing rural communities the opportunity to compete for project funding to address these problems. The program will encourage States and rural communities to develop creative, locally crafted solutions to roadway safety problems, document their efforts and outcomes, and share the results with other communities across the country.

By providing technical assistance and best practice guidance from the program, DOT will give States and rural road owners better tools to improve road safety in their communities. The primary objectives of the Rural Safety Innovation Program are to:

• Improve safety on local and rural roads with innovative approaches in which rural communities develop and design local solutions to their roadway safety problems.
• Provide best practices and lessons learned on innovative safety technologies to assist local and rural road owners and operators in the development and implementation of infrastructure-based rural safety countermeasures that complement behavioral safety efforts.
• Promote national awareness and interest in addressing rural safety issues.
• Promote the use of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technologies to improve safety on rural roads.

Highlights

ITS Applications Overview
The ITS Joint Program Office has an enhanced the ITS Applications Overview website. For 176 ITS technologies, this website asks and answers pressing questions such as “What are the benefits?”, “What are the costs?”, and “How much is out there?” The question “Who at the U.S. DOT can I contact?” has been added to this list. The website lists a core set of experts at the U.S. DOT in each of 176 distinct ITS technologies, along with the experts' area of specialization.