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Corporate Creators:
Louisiana Transportation Research Center
Subject/TRT Terms:
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Curricula
Education
Highway Safety

Publication/ Report Number:
13-2SA
Resource Type:
Booklet/Pamphlet
Geographical Coverage:
Louisiana
Edition:
Research project capsule.
Corporate Publisher:
Louisiana Transportation Research Center
NTL Classification:
NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Highway Safety ; NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-Education ;
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.


Format:
PDF
Collection(s):
US Transportation Collection
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:22c1b3186680238220935a044a1ec160e029d9312b8196c67152b404ddbb713c
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