Developing a Highway Safety Fundamentals Course : Research Project Capsule

Details

• Corporate Creators:
  Louisiana Transportation Research Center
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  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
• 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:
  urn:sha256:22c1b3186680238220935a044a1ec160e029d9312b8196c67152b404ddbb713c
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/25094/dot_25094_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 179.59 KB ]