United States Department of Transportation
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Abstract:Although the need for road safety education was first recognized in the 1960s, it has become an increasingly urgent issue
in recent years. To fulfill the hefty goal set up by the AASHTO Highway Safety Strategy and by state DOTS, it is critical
to have a workforce that fully understands the fundamentals of highway safety. One way to ensure such an adequate
workforce is to develop a college level course to educate students. Although the NCHRP Project 17-40, “Model
Curriculum for Highway Safety Core Competencies,” has produced training materials on highway safety, it targets a broad
audience “that consists of road safety professionals at all levels of government, as well as representatives of the private
sector and non-profits, from the fields of: traffic engineering, highway safety, public health, psychology, statistics, law
enforcement, economics, planning, public policy, and education.” The course title “Road Safety 101” clearly shows that it
is not intended for a systematic safety education in the field of engineering.
This project developed a teaching package for safety fundamentals for undergraduate students and graduate students in
civil engineering. The course covers seven topics: introduction to highway safety, basic safety concepts, safety related
data, fundamental statistics, development of safety models, safety predictive models in HSM, and safety evaluation.
Accordingly, seven lecture notes were developed along with homework assignments, quizzes, and exams.
The developed course materials can also be used in the engineering continuing education on the topic of roadway safety
and in roadway safety training workshops for a broad audience who are involved in highway safety from not just
engineering, but also education and enforcement.
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