{"id":316,"date":"2015-10-08T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/10\/08\/transportation-safety-oil-boom-costs-billions-new-report-4-points\/"},"modified":"2015-10-08T20:49:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T20:49:00","slug":"transportation-safety-oil-boom-costs-billions-new-report-4-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/transportation-safety-oil-boom-costs-billions-new-report-4-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Transportation Safety &#038; Oil Boom Costs Billions. New Report. 4 Points."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Who authored this study about transportation safety being impacted by the oil boom?\u00a0<\/strong>Texas A&amp;M transportation Institute<\/p>\n<p><strong>What areas did they study to conclude its costing billions? <\/strong>They studied crashes in 2 time frames,\u00a02006-2009 and 2010-2013, and in 3 areas; the Permian Basin, Barnett Shale, and Eagle Ford Shale regions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the conclusion?<\/strong>\u00a0As rig counts go up so do traffic collisions, and as rig counts go down so do traffic collisions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How much do traffic collisions in energy development areas cost Texas?<\/strong>\u00a0$1 billion per year on state highways and an additional $1 billion on county and local roads\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>TTI\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tti.tamu.edu\/policy\/\" style=\"color:rgb(153,0,0);text-decoration:none;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);font-family:Arial, sans-serif;line-height:26px;\">Transportation Policy Research Center<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2015\/10\/07\/report-shows-huge-toll-energy-boom-traffic-crashes\/\">Texas Tribune |\u00a0Report: Energy Boom-Related Traffic Crashes Cost Billions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Who authored this study about transportation safety being impacted by the oil boom?\u00a0<\/strong>Texas A&amp;M transportation Institute<\/p>\n<p><strong>What areas did they study to conclude its costing billions? <\/strong>They studied crashes in 2 time frames,\u00a02006-2009 and 2010-2013, and in 3 areas; the Permian Basin, Barnett Shale, and Eagle Ford Shale regions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the conclusion?<\/strong>\u00a0As rig counts go up so do traffic collisions, and as rig counts go down so do traffic collisions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How much do traffic collisions in energy&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-roads","category-transportation-safety","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}