Achieving traffic safety goals in the United States : lessons from other nations.

Author(s)
Transportation Research Board TRB, Committee for the Study of Traffic Safety Lessons from Benchmark Nations; Oster Jr., C.V. (chair)
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Abstract

TRB has released the prepublication version of Special Report 300: Achieving Traffic Safety Goals in the United States: Lessons from Other Nations. The report explores the reasons why several high-income nations have achieved better highway safety records than the United States and recommends best practices from abroad that would fit in the U.S. context. The report examines traffic safety program management practices, risk reduction techniques, and the sources of public and political support for safety interventions. According to the committee that produced the report, the United States could see greater improvement in highway safety through the adoption of systematic, results-oriented safety management practices that are flexible enough to take into consideration local and regional legal constraints, community attitudes, resources, and road system and traffic characteristics. (Author/publisher) This report on available online at http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/sr/sr300.pdf

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Library number
20101950 ST [electronic version only]
Source

Washington, D.C., National Research Council NRC, Transportation Research Board TRB, 2010, VIII + 175 p.; Special Report SR ; No. 300 - ISBN 978-0-309-16065-0

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