Traffic Safety Culture: Related Publications and Websites

The Center for Health and Safety Culture (formerly MOST of Us®) is an interdisciplinary center serving communities and organizations through research, training, and support services to cultivate healthy and safe cultures. The Center is dedicated to applying research to develop sustainable solutions to complex social problems. Our Positive Culture Framework (PCF) provides a process to guide researchers, practitioners, and community leaders to improve health and safety.

As the lead federal government agency responsible for regulating and providing safety oversight of commercial motor vehicles (CMVs), FMCSA's mission is to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.

The training and technical assistance described on this page is specific to the major components of the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP)

The SHSP is a statewide-coordinated safety plan that provides a comprehensive framework for reducing highway fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads.

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reports the official mortality estimates for the United States and is used as a comparison to judge the accuracy of National Safety Council (NSC) preliminary estimates.

A local road safety plan (LRSP) provides a framework for identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing roadway safety improvements on local roads. The LRSP development process and content are tailored to local issues and needs. The process results in a prioritized list of issues, risks, actions, and improvements that can be used to reduce fatalities and serious injuries on the local road network.

Welcome to the local road safety plan do-it-yourself website! We are so happy you are here. On this site, you’ll find everything you need to make a plan that fits your community and gets people home safely.

Our mission is to save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce economic costs due to road traffic crashes, through education, research, safety standards, and enforcement.

Library of Resources to Improve Roadway Work Zone Safety for All Roadway Users

NHTSA studies behaviors and attitudes in highway safety, focusing on drivers, passengers, pedestrians, and motorcyclists. We identify and measure behaviors involved in crashes or associated with injuries, and develop and refine countermeasures to deter unsafe behaviors and promote safe alternatives.

Speeding contributes to over a quarter of all road trauma and is a persistent driving behavior that brings harm both to the vehicle occupants as well as other more vulnerable road users. In 2018, speeding related crashes resulted in 9,378 deaths which is a staggering 26 percent of all crash fatalities.

Agencies who want to address speeding are often faced with a lack of resources in setting appropriate speeds for conditions, pushback on changing speed limits, a lack of resources for countermeasures or enforcement, and restrictions or opposition to alternate long-lasting enforcement options such as safety cameras.

This report provides another avenue of information for practitioners in that it summarizes eight case studies which highlight noteworthy practices over a range of speed management issues.

This report
provides the practitioner with information on the effects of road
users actions on roadway safety and how, when, and where to
use this information to improve safety on their roadways. The
information provided is not a substitute but a complement to
technical information found in other documents. Throughout the
report references are provided.

This guide is intended to support agencies that are interested in conducting pedestrian- and bicycle-focused RSAs and
includes information on safety risks for both modes, the RSA process, necessary data, and the roles and responsibilities of
the RSA Team. Also included are updated prompt lists for pedestrians and bicyclists to use in the field. This guide will aid
practitioners understand pedestrian and bicyclist issues in their jurisdiction and potentially achieve other goals in addition
to safety, like enhancing quality of life, improving community health, or increasing pedestrian and bicycle mode share.

Technical assistance delivered through workshops and peer exchanges generally results in an event report. Reports provide roadway safety practitioners with easy-to-access technical assistance on safety challenges encountered by many of their fellow agencies.

The 2018 Rural Intelligent Transportation System Toolkit is an update and expansion of the previous effort in order to update its relevance and usefulness for transportation practitioners. It is a series of 42 rural transportation critical need fact sheets (pdf files) that can be found below, categorized by topic.

Speeding is a complex issue involving engineering, driving behavior, education, and enforcement. That's why the U.S. DOT has set up a multimodal, multidisciplinary Speed Management Team to attack the problem. The DOT Team has a formal charter and a work plan. FHWA is the lead agency accountable for the engineering actions.

FHWA has developed a wide variety of resources to help states develop, implement, evaluate, and promote their SHSPs, as well as additional guidance on related topics, FAQs, and other information that can help states improve their SHSP processes

The Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) Database contains key data from 52 SHSPs about the data-driven approaches states are using to reduce roadway fatalities and serious injuries.

If you participate in your State’s SHSP development and implementation, or would like to, this forum is for you. Here you will have the opportunity to interact with peers on SHSP related issues and learn about the latest SHSP resources, noteworthy practices, and events.

Led by the TZD Steering Committee, the National Strategy on Highway Safety provides a platform of consistency for state agencies, private industry, national organizations and others to develop safety plans that prioritize traffic safety culture and promote the national TZD vision.

While the vehicle occupant rate decreased, pedestrian fatalities increased from 4,109 in 2009 to 6,283 in 2018, a
53 percent increase and the highest number of pedestrian fatalities since 1990 There are some signs the trend
may be reversing In 2019, pedestrian fatalities decreased by 2 percent More needs to be done to keep the trend
moving in the right direction That is why the U S Department of Transportation (USDOT), led by the Federal
Highway Administration (FHWA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), conducted a
national dialogue on pedestrian safety through three webinars that focused on the safe system approach; the
when, where, who, and how of pedestrian risk; and next steps

The mission of the TRB Subcommittee on Vision Toward Zero Deaths for U.S. roadways is to promote and support collaborative and comprehensive research to advance road safety and accelerate implementation of high priority safety improvement strategies.

Eight transportation research programs, one integrated team addressing rural matters

Several states have asked to use the Zero Fatalities television ads, print creative, and other elements of the program. We welcome that, as we have seen positive success with the Zero Fatalities message in Utah.