UAB UT Annual Report : 2010-2011

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• Creators:
  Fine, Philip Russ
• Corporate Creators:
  University Transportation Center for Alabama
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Transportation
  • Annual reports
  • Transportation
  • Annual reports
  • University transportation center
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Alabama
• Corporate Publisher:
  University Transportation Center for Alabama
• Abstract:
  The UAB UTC's theme, Traffic Safety and Injury Control was an excellent fit for the UAB Injury Control ; Research Center’s (ICRC) faculty, because it complemented the ICRC’s Mission, which was: “To help the ; nation achieve a significant reduction in the rate of injuries and their resulting deaths and disabilities, ; especially in the southeastern United States.” In the United States in 2008, there were nearly 122,000 ; unintentional injury deaths in persons less than 1 year of age through older than 85 years of age. Of these ; deaths, approximately 32% were motor vehicle related. However, this figure and proportion increased ; substantially when four additional transportation-related categories, (1) Other Land Transport, (2) Other ; Transport, (3) Pedestrian and (4) Pedal Cyclist, were added to the mix. The UAB UTC Theme and the ; activities conducted in its support applied to more than one mode of transportation. To this end, the ; research, education and technology transfer activities of the UAB UTC were designed to address ; problems, issues and challenges associated with private motor vehicles, commercial carriers and transit. ; Since the UAB UTC was the first – and, to our knowledge, the only – UTC ever to be established within a ; School of Medicine, the UAB UTC chose to address medically related issues such as (1) the impact of ; congestion on motor vehicle crash-related (MVC) injury outcome as a function of the “golden hour”/firstresponder ; access; (2) traffic management and emergency preparedness via development of a dynamic ; traffic assignment and simulation model for incident and emergency management applications; (3) and ; the distracted driving epidemic; with the goal to achieve a statistically significant reduction in morbidity ; and mortality associated with MVCs occurring in medically underserved, rural areas of a large Southern ; state.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/25038/dot_25038_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 30.31 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b32e765a2b1068583b2fc41046780c86c71381802e439ceef3de166b8a80b458