The National Conference on Street and Highway Safety was organized in 1924 under the chairmanship of Secretary of Commerce Hoover General sessions of the Conference were held in December, 1924, and March, 1926, at which a comprehensive program for traffic improvement was adopted, including a Uniform Vehicle Code of proposed state laws The Conferenc
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The National Conference on Street and Highway Safety was organized in 1924 under the chairmanship of Secretary of Commerce Hoover General sessions of the Conference were held in December, 1924, and March, 1926, at which a comprehensive program for traffic improvement was adopted, including a Uniform Vehicle Code of proposed state laws The Conferenc
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The purpose of this pamphlet is to explain briefly the features of Act II of the Uniform Vehicle Code, which is known as the Uniform Motor Vehicle Anti-Theft or Certificate of Title Act.
Model municipal traffic ordinance, prepared by the Committee on municipal traffic ordinances and regulations; together with explanatory report and suggested drafts of the following supplementary ordinances: An ordinance to create an official traffic commission; An ordinance to control roadway and sidewalk obstructions.
The proposed Uniform Vehicle Code here presented is the outgrowth of more than two years' work by the National Conference on Street and Highway Safety in cooperation with the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. This proposed Code was formulated with the widest cooperation of those: having understanding and experience in thes
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The purpose and problem of this Conference is to devise and recommend measures which will reduce the traffic accidents in the country With 23,900 persons killed and approximately 600,000 injured last year, the importance of this subject needs no emphasis.
The purposes of the Committee to focus public attention on the appalling and steady increase in street and highway accidents, and second, to develop a comprehensive program for improvement of traffic conditions and reduction of accidents, upon which all concerned, including state and municipal officials and other interested groups, could agree.
The work of the Committee on Metropolitan Traffic Facilities follows largely as a sequel to the work of three committees of the First National Conference on Street and Highway Safety which reported respectively on Traffic Control, Construction and Engineering, and City Planning and Zoning. The reports of those committees gave much detail as to meas
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Work began at the point reached by the Committee on Statistics of the 1924 Conference on Street and Highway Safety. They had made a "thorough survey of the field of traffic accident statistics and found almost a total lack of systematic effort to secure accurate and complete data regarding such accidents." They made recommendations to state and mun
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The First National Conference on Street and Highway Safety emphasized the importance of uniformity of traffic laws and regulations, and recommended in its report certain principles which should be embodied in those laws and regulations. In order that those principles might be properly developed on a legal basis, the Committee on Uniformity of Laws
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This report is one of eight issued for consideration in advance of the National Conference on Street and Highway Safety The reports are: I Statistics; II Traffic Control; III Construction and Engineering; IV City Planning and Zoning; V Insurance; VI Education; VII The Motor Vehicle; VIII Public Relations.
This is intended to bring out the importance of uniformity in the essential provisions of motor vehicle laws for the convenience of state officials and others and to offer a ready means of checking these provisions against their present state laws and determining what changes may be needed to bring them into harmony with accepted present day standa
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The conference aims at furthering means to save life and prevent accidents; to make travel safer on oui highways for both the pedestrian and the passenger.
PART I Summary of Accident Reporting Methods and Rules of State Highway Departments or Motor Vehicle Commissioners; PART II Summary of Accident Reporting Methods and Rules of State Railroad or Public Utility Commissioners.
This report is one of eight issued for consideration in advance of the National Conference on Street and Highway Safety The reports are: I Statistics; II Traffic Control; III Construction and Engineering; IV City Planning and Zoning; V Insurance; VI Education; VII The Motor Vehicle; VIII Public Relations.
Many vehicles of safe design and construction are being operated in an unsafe condition: due to lack of care on the part of the owners. The committee believes that this can be corrected only by directing the attention of each vehicle owner and operator to his responsibility toward himself and toward other users of the highways. The committee in thi
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This report is one of eight issued for consideration in advance of the National Conference on Street and Highway Safety The reports are: I Statistics; II Traffic Control; III Construction and Engineering; IV City Planning and Zoning; V Insurance; VI Education; VII The Motor Vehicle; VIII Public Relations.
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