Traffic Safety Culture Summit

The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety and Western Transportation Institute co-hosted the first National Rural Summit on Traffic Safety Culture in June. The goal of the summit was to generate dialogue about traffic safety culture, its meaning and the influence it has on public attitudes and behaviors. The effort included attendee approval of a resolution calling on President Obama to address the fact that more than 1 million people have been killed in motor vehicle crashes over the past quarter-century. In fact, AAA Foundation President and CEO Peter Kissinger and Western Transportation Institute Director Steven Albert recently sent President Obama a copy of the resolution and a letter urging him to convene a White House conference on highway safety and create stronger initiatives focused on improving roadway safety.

A proceedings report from the summit will be released in the next couple of months.