Chapter 4: The Federal Role in Highway Safety

Weingroff, Richard F.; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration

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Chapter 4: The Federal Role in Highway Safety

2024-03-20
By Weingroff, Richard F.
Series: FHWA Highway History Website Articles

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President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Federal Role in Highway Safety Chapter 4: The Federal Role in Highway Safety
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Weingroff, Richard F.
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
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Seabron, Sonquela
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Federal Government Highways Highway Safety United States. President (1953-1961: Eisenhower)
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This chapter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Federal Role in Highway Safety details a BPR report to Congress. It included the history of national highway safety conferences, discussion of the need for a driver records clearance center and an interdepartmental highway safety board. It also emphasized safety factors including human factors, motor vehicles, and highways. The report concluded with recommendations. The chapter also addresses highway safety as an epidemic and the Interstate system. The chapter discusses federal intervention and the president's role in promoting highway safety.
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The original format of this document was an active HTML page(s) located under https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/history.cfm. The Federal Highway Administration converted the HTML page(s) into an Adobe® Acrobat® PDF file to preserve and support reuse of the information it contained. The intellectual content of this PDF is an authentic capture of the original HTML file. Hyperlinks and other functions of the HTML webpage may have been lost, and this version of the content may not fully work with screen reading software.
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