Developing a Highway Safety Fundamentals Course : Research Project Capsule

Details

• Corporate Creators:
  Louisiana Transportation Research Center
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Highway safety
  • Curricula
  • Education
  • Highway safety
  • Curricula
  • Education
• Publication/ Report Number:
  13-2SA
• Resource Type:
  Booklet/Pamphlet
• Geographical Coverage:
  Louisiana
• Edition:
  Research project capsule.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Louisiana Transportation Research Center
• Abstract:
  Although the need for road ; safety education was fi rst ; recognized in the 1960s, ; recently it has become an ; increasingly urgent issue. To ; fulfi ll the hefty goal set up by ; the AASHTO Highway ; Safety Strategy (cutting ; traffi c fatalities in half by 2020) and by the state (Destination Zero Death by Louisiana Strategy ; Highway Safety Plan), it is critical to have a workforce that fully understands the fundamentals ; of highway safety. At the present time, the most experienced highway safety engineers acquire ; their expertise through on-the-job training. The retirement of those experienced professionals in ; the next decade will result in a gap in the roadway safety workforce development. Ensuring that ; newly entering engineering students are equipped with a suffi cient background in highway safety ; is critical to sustaining the progress of reducing the number of crashes in recent years. Therefore, ; one way to ensure such an adequate workforce is to develop a college level course to educate ; students, which has not been done in the past.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/25094/dot_25094_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 179.59 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:22c1b3186680238220935a044a1ec160e029d9312b8196c67152b404ddbb713c