Abstract
The main interest of the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has always been to maintain safety on national highways. The goal is to reduce roadway-related fatalities and injuries by designing a forgiving infrastructure and educating road users about highway safety and technologies. In November 2001, a workshop was held to identify issues related to intersection safety and to develop a national agenda on intersection safety. One new ITS effort the workshop identified is the Auto Incident Recording System (AIRS) that is a sound-actuated video recording system used to help analyze the reasons for traffic conflicts at intersections. This article describes and discusses the features offered by the AIRS intersection analysis system.