The University of Massachusetts Traffic Safety Research Program (UMassSafe), with support from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), will host the fourth Commercial Vehicle Safety Summit - Innovative Best Practices for Law Enforcement, Research & Industry to Prevent Crashes on November 13-14, 2024 in Springfield, Massachusetts. With the goal of promoting best practices across the Eastern Service Center, the Summit will showcase innovative programming from a variety of disciplines to enhance collaboration, improve safety, and prevent crashes involving large trucks and buses.

 

You are invited!  Representatives from law enforcement, research, freight and technology industries, and regulatory and licensing agencies, within the Eastern Service Center region, and beyond, are invited to attend. 

Share your work!  If you are interested in presenting your agency's programming initiatives at the Summit, please volunteer by completing this form. Presentation sessions, working groups, content-expert panelists and poster displays are encouraged.  

Register! Click the green button on the "Registration" tab. You will be prompted to log in or create an account if you have not attended a previous UMass Transportation Center event. You can opt to pay by credit card or invoice; payment is not collected on this site. A confirmation email with a credit card payment link will be sent after completing enrollment. 

Fee waivers are available for the $150 registration cost; priority to those volunteering to share their work, as well as organizations in which funding would be a barrier to attending. Click here to apply for a fee waiver. Limited travel reimbursement grants are available. Click here to apply for a travel grant.

Questions or Comments?  Please contact Benjamin Roney-Yeager at benyeager@umass.edu

Title VI Compliance  This material is based upon work supported by the FMCSA under a cooperative agreement, FM-MHP-0768-23-01-00.