National agenda for intersection safety, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A., 14-16 November 2001.

To focus the transportation and safety community's attention to intersection-safety, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), State Farm Insurance Company and a host of other organizations, sponsored a National Intersection Safety Workshop. More than 180 transportation and safety professionals convened in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on November 14-16, 2001 for the workshop. The goals were to convene an expert group from the education, enforcement and engineering groups to identify and describe the intersection safety problem, to share and discuss the best practices for improving intersection safety, and most important, to develop a national agenda on intersection safety that provides a vision for the improvement of intersection safety. The workshop contained presentations focusing on law enforcement, engineering and education topics related to intersection safety, and a series of breakout sessions and conversation circles designed to elicit input from all participants. Each breakout group included 20 to 30 people who focused their discussions on urban, suburban, or rural aspects of intersection safety. Three breakout sessions each had a specific focus. The first session focused on problem/opportunity identification. The objective was to identify the major issues, challenges and barriers to reduce intersection crashes. The second session had the objective of developing solutions. The group considered the following: (1) what resources/solutions do we already have in place to assist in intersection crash reduction efforts? what do we have already that is working? (2) what resources/solutions are not in place to assist in crash reduction efforts? and (3) other creative resources/solutions that have not been tried. Within the third session, the objective was to develop the national agenda based on the solutions developed for each group. The agenda included strategies and a discussion of how they might be implemented.