Automated Traffic Enforcement Safety Device (ATESD)
The Automated Traffic Enforcement Safety Device (ATESD) Program is to empower Connecticut municipalities to improve roadway and pedestrian safety within their communities. It captures images of drivers committing traffic violations, such as speeding and running through red lights.
Know the Zone: Speed Safety Camera
Work zones are essential to building and maintaining quality highways, and we all play important roles in keeping them safe for drivers, passengers, and workers. In 2023, the Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) rolled out a one-year pilot program to strengthen our ongoing efforts to improve the safety of CTDOT work zones. The program ended December 31, 2023.
National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI)
The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program (NEVI) is part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law enacted in 2021.This program will provide $5 billion over five years for states to deploy direct current (DC) fast electric vehicle (EV) chargers along highway corridors and provides formula funding to states to award grants to private, public, and nonprofit entities to build, own, maintain and operate chargers.
Traffic Noise
The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) oversees traffic noise complaints along federally funded highways in the state. CTDOT guidelines are based on the Federal Highway Administration(FHWA) regulation (23 CFR 772). This regulation outlines the requirements that highway agencies must meet for federally funded highway projects.
Vision Zero
The Vision Zero Council is an interagency work group tasked with developing statewide policy to eliminate transportation-related fatalities and severe injuries involving pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users, motorists, and passengers.
Work Zone Safety
You’re driving down a Connecticut roadway and you see an orange sign, orange barrels or cones up ahead. That’s your cue to Obey the Orange – slow down and pay attention. You’re about to enter a work zone. Speeding and driving distracted in work zones cause thousands of crashes every year and puts lives in danger.
Wrong Way Driving
One of the largest threats to that safety is wrong way crashes. When wrong way crashes happen, they are often fatal. To try to stop these crashes from happening, CTDOT has been installing wrong way driving countermeasures over the past two years.
Transportation Rural Improvement Program (TRIP)
The CTDOT Transportation Rural Improvement Grant Program, (TRIP) provides state funds to municipal governments for infrastructure improvements in rural areas of Connecticut. Activities may include transportation capital projects such as construction, modernization, or major repair of infrastructure.