Traffic Safety Culture: Webinars

A project to better understand aggressive driving and ways to reduce it was completed by the Center for Health and Safety Culture and sponsored by the Traffic Safety Culture Pooled Fund. This webinar will review what was learned in this project including an overview of data that was collected to better understand the prevalence and correlates of aggressive driving behavior and a resource that was created to help traffic safety practitioners bolster their current traffic safety efforts to address aggressive driving.

This webinar is on the results of a project sponsored by the Transportation Pooled Fund on Traffic Safety Culture (led by the Montana Department of Transportation) to review published literature about the processes and conditions that influence belief formation and change. The results of the review were used to create guidance which traffic safety stakeholders can use as they review or potentially develop strategies to change traffic safety culture.

This webinar summarizes the findings of a project sponsored by the Transportation Pooled Fund on Traffic Safety Culture (lead by the Montana Department of Transportation) which reviewed best practices for evaluating strategies to change culture.

This webinar summarizes the findings of a project sponsored by the Transportation Pooled Fund on Traffic Safety Culture (lead by the Montana Department of Transportation) that used surveys among parents with teens who were driving and supervisors who supervised employees who drove for work to better understand their beliefs about distracted driving and about establishing (or clarifying) expectations and rules about distracted driving.

This webinar summarizes the findings of a project sponsored by the Transportation Pooled Fund on Traffic Safety Culture (lead by the Montana Department of Transportation) which explored whether psychological reactance or moral disengagement is more prevalent among adult drivers who never or rarely wear their seat belts or who drive aggressively (i.e., speed, follow too closely, and pass excessively) and to identify potential messaging to minimize reactance and overcome moral disengagement regarding seat belt use and aggressive driving.

This webinar summarized the results of a project to better understand how the culture within law enforcement agencies impacts engagement in traffic safety enforcement.

This webinar explored key information for driving under the influence of cannabis (DUIC) policy.

This webinar summarized the TSC Primer and its supporting toolkit that have been developed to address this need as part of a multi-state pooled fund project.

In this webinar, Dr. Kari Finley introduces a variety of communication tools that can be implemented immediately to build the capacity of critical stakeholders to grow proactive traffic safety. Proactive traffic safety is proactive behaviors demonstrating commitment to a safe roadway transportation system.

The purpose of this research project was to understand which specific aspects of traffic safety culture predict the decision to drive under the influence of cannabis (DUIC). As more states decriminalize and legalize medical and recreational use of cannabis (marijuana), traffic safety leaders and public health advocates have growing concerns about DUIC. The results of this project help distinguish differences in culture between users and non-users of cannabis regarding traffic safety as well as provide recommendations for next steps.

Traffic safety citizenship is a novel approach to empower the vast majority of safe road users to engage in prosocial behaviors to impact the smaller group engaging in risky behaviors. Are you interested in learning more about this approach and strategies that you can use increase traffic safety citizenship?

This webinar discusses research related to impulsivity and emotional intelligence, including a new scale the Center has developed to measure driver emotional intelligence.

Produced by Houston Police and sponsored by AAA Texas, this short film is meant to encourage drivers to think twice while behind the wheel – because research shows that taking your eyes off of the road for just two seconds doubles your chance of getting into a crash, leading to possible injuries or, worse, death.

Growing traffic safety culture can seem daunting, but there are actions everyone can take right now to grow a safer traffic safety culture. During this webinar, Katie Dively and Jay Otto, researchers with the Center for Health and Safety Culture, explore tips to grow traffic safety culture.

Hosted by Vermont Highway Safety Office and AAA, this webinar was focused on "Selling highway safety and achieving deterrents through effective roadside messaging."

Hosted by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), this webinar discusses using a Safe System approach to better protect vulnerable road users.

This webinar reviews the findings of a survey developed by the Center for Health and Safety Culture on behalf of the Washington Traffic Safety Commission about the beliefs and behaviors of 800 parents in Washington State relating to actions they take to teach their children safe driving practices.

In 2013, the Highway Safety Office of the Utah Department of Public Safety engaged the Center for Health and Safety Culture in a multi-year pilot project to reduce the significant disparities in seat belt use rates between Utah’s urban areas (with observed seat belt use rates at about 85%) and rural areas (with observed seat belt use rates as low as 55%). This webinar explained how the Together for Life Project promoted seat belt use in 7 rural counties by bolstering family rules, workplace rules, and bystander engagement (i.e., getting individuals to ask others to wear a seat belt) to increase both self-reported and observed seat belt use.

The Center for Health and Safety Culture partnered with the Washington Traffic Safety Commission (WTSC) in support of their Target Zero goal by exploring the traffic safety culture underlying the increase in fatal crashes related to drivers using cannabis and alcohol.

Hosted by the National Center for Rural Road Safety, the presenters discuss what it will take to get to zero road fatalities.