About of HIGHWAY LOSS DATA INSTITUTE
Insurance Information Institute: Auto Theft
Statistics and information regarding auto theft and prevention.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safetys Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) says that the 2003 to 2005 model year Cadillac Escalade has the highest rate of insurance theft claims
Source: Highway Loss Data Institute
High-theft metropolitan areas have instituted task forces to combat auto theft
Component Theft: More than 75, 000 air bags are stolen every year, according to estimates by the Insurance Information Institute
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Crash Tests - Auto Safety, Car Buying Tips, Car Buying Guide ...
Crash-test results and insurance risk data on new and used cars, trucks, vans,
and SUVs.
BBB Alerts & News
Tips on all aspects of car buying, including research, shopping, financing, and
purchasing.
You can find out about a car's accident history using data collected by the Highway Loss Data Institute in Arlington, Virginia
The Highway Loss Data Institute compiles data on car thefts, which can be useful in making a decision about buying a car
Informed For Life
Safe vehicle selection criteria including a procedure for selecing a safer vehicle
using crash test and fatality data.
This website describes a comprehensive approach to evaluating the relative safety of vehicles, utilizing National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) ratings and fatality data
For example, prior to 1997 side impact ratings were not available from the Federal Government's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and prior to 2003 the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) did not rate vehicles for side impact
Reference: IIHS's Highway Loss Data Institute publication: "Fatality Facts 2004: Occupants of Cars, Pickups, SUVs and Vans" chart of "Passenger vehicle occupant deaths in all crashes by impact point and vehicle type, 2004", adjusted to be consistent with the chart "Passenger vehicle occupant deaths in rollover crashes by impact point and vehicle type, 2004" (III) Predicting Fatality Rates [1] The best indicator of the predictive value for any measurement system is past performance
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Aarow's Ford Focus
Hatchback and sedan review and pricing.
CNN.com - Acura Integra tops list of most stolen vehicles - May 15 ...
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CNN - Local News - City car theft is on the skids - August 1, 2000
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PowerLock - Vehicle Security Systems Anti-Theft Devices
Manufactures car alarms and car security systems that are impossible to hotwire.
On Acuras, as on vehicles of other brands, immobilizers are 'thought to be more effective in deterring amateur thieves than [deterring] the professionals'." Kim Hazelbaker, Senior Vice President, Highway Loss Data Institute, as quoted in the Los Angeles Times, May 22, 2002 "Or they (vehicle owners) can go all out and buy the GPS security systems like LoJack or OnStar
Kim Hazelbaker, Senior Vice President, Highway Loss Data Institute, as quoted by CNN/Money, October 19, 2004 Researchers said Saturday they have found a way to crack the code used in millions of car keys, a development they said could allow thieves to bypass the security systems on newer car models
Benefits
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Highway Deicing and Anti-Icing for Safety and Mobility The Salt
Institute summarizes the importance of winter roadway maintenance for
safety and mobility.
Sensible Salting The Salt Institute has a for public works personnel responsible for snowfighting operations: Sensible Salting
In a 1976 report, Benefits and Costs in the Use of Salt to Deice Highways , by The Institute for Safety Analysis (TISA), Washington, DC, using 1976 prices and rates, the use of deicing salt reduces wages lost due to lateness to work by $7.6 billion saves $3 billion in wage loss because of absenteeism reduces production losses by $7 billion reduces losses in goods shipment by $600 million saves 370 million to 1.2 billion gallons of fuel has an 18:1 benefit:cost ratio A study, Accident Analysis of Ice Control Operations , released in 1992 by Marquette University's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering concluded that "As a winter maintenance service, de-icing pays for itself within the first 25 minutes after the first hour that salt is spread on two-lane highways
Studies by the Salt Institute have determined that a loaded salt truck, spreading at the generally accepted rate of 500 pounds per two-lane mile for general storm conditions, can treat a 22.5 mile stretch of roadway, traveling a total of 45 miles
California Local Government Finance Almanac
Data, statistics, analyses, and articles on California city and county finance.
Institute for Local Self Government 2005
Chapter 10 of the Planning Commissioner's Handbook edited by Bill Higgins of the Institute for Local Self Government 2004
Legislative Analyst's Office, December 2004 (PDF) edited by Charles Summerell of the Institute for Local Self Government (HTML) edited by Michael A
Public Policy Institute of California
(PDF) Mark Baldassare and Christopher Hoene, Public Policy Institute of California Oct 2005
Chapman, Public Policy Institute of California 1998
Chapman, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Working Paper
Shires, Public Policy Institute of California 1999
Shires, John Ellwood, and Mary Sprague, Public Policy Institute of California 1998
Public Policy Institute of California
Michael Coleman, Nov 1997 Western City (345k) Fred Silva and Elisa Barbour, Public Policy Institute of California 1999
Fred Silva, Public Policy Institute of California 1999
Lewis and Elisa Barbour, Public Policy Institute of California
Public Policy Institute of California
Public Policy Institute of California, July 1999
Ohioproductliability.com
Specializing in product liability law.
Ohio Occupants of SUVs and pickups Product Liability Cases Involving SUV âs in Ohio Pickup and SUV occupants 242 precentage 19 Total motor vehicle deaths 1, 277 Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Highway Loss Data I The manufacturer of a product has the given responsibility of making their product with care
Electric Highway Vehicles
Information about EVs, featuring a conceptual technology for dual-mode high-performance
electric vehicles (EVs), powered by onboard batteries plus other power ...
Proposed Dual-mode EVs and Infrastructure for them In March 1976, the University of California at Berkeley's Institute for Transportation Engineering published a paper, 'Electric Highway Vehicles..
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Cato Institute: Amtrak at Twenty-Five, End of the Line for ...
1996 policy paper says subsidies are based on myths.
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Stephen Moore is director of fiscal policy studies at the Cato Institute
Highway Aggravation: The Case For Privatizing The Highways
An essay promoting privatization of highways, rather than government ownership.
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The wasted time and fuel are estimated to cost (at least) $40 billion annually.'(1) The Texas Transportation Institute, a division of Texas A&M University, does regular studies of highway congestion under contract to the Federal Highway Administration
The TTI data support the contention that building extra capacity can help (though, in deference to current anti-road fashion, the institute does not advocate that course)
WHY REDUCE AUTOMOBILEDEPENDENCE
Exploring the prospect of designing auto-less, sustainable communities with
alternative transportation, renewable energy, pedestrian orientation, ...
[The World Resources Institute, World Resources: The Urban Environment, 1996, p
For positive suggestions on alternative development strategies and designs, see: -- Contact: Logan Perkins, Director of The Priorities Institute 303 408-0069; Dept
JunkScience.com -- Steven Milloy, Publisher
Corporate-funded site which contends that environmentalists, activists, government
regulators, lawyers, and scientists use faulty scientific data (junk science) ...
Now, using real-time imaging to track malaria infections in live mice, researchers have discovered one of the parasite's sneakiest tricks--using dead liver cells to cloak and transport itself back into the bloodstream after leaving the liver." (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) They don't say..
Michaels, Cato Institute) Another ecoEnquirer scoop:) - "Increasingly explicit and graphic global warming predictions have led to the danger of addiction: This is the story of one young man whose interest in global warming became a dangerous obsession." (ecoEnquirer) - "Tony Blair, the British prime minister, who worries about global warming more than any other world leader, has finally found an important American ally: Gov
North American Green - Software
Computer-assisted selection of materials for slope erosion protection and channel
scour resistance, for engineers, designers and contractors in the erosion and ...
Standard material, Supplemental, Construction Standards Institute (C.S.I.), Performance, and Project specifications are included in text files accessible for viewing, printing, and in some cases editing for inclusion in complete project specifications
Handbook of Texas Online:
Current and historical information about Travis County.
More elaborate private facilities began to appear by the late 1840s: Colorado Female College in 1848, Austin Male and Female Academy in 1849, Austin Female Academy in 1850, and Austin Collegiate Female Institute in 1852
Travis County became a center for higher education in the 1880s with the establishment of the University of Texas in 1881, Tillotson Collegiate and Normal Institute in 1881, and Saint Edward's University in 1885; Samuel Huston College began holding classes in the 1890s ( see HUSTON-TILLOTSON COLLEGE)
Highway Safety Desk Book
The officer's guide to DUI detection and investigation.
The Sprawling of America: In Defense of the Dynamic City
Article in defense of sprawl by Sam Staley, Ph.D. of the Reason Public Policy
Institute.
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