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Developing a Highway Safety Fundamentals Course : Research Project Capsule
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2012-10-01
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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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