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2009 Traffic Safety Culture Index - Follow-on report to the 2008 nationally-representative telephone survey which assesses a few key indicators of the degree to which traffic safety is valued and is being
pursued.
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Traffic Safety Culture in the United States: The Journey Forward is a collection of 20+ research articles written by top experts in diverse fields including transportation, public health, public policy, psychology, and more, addressing what needs to be done to ignite and sustain serious national dialogue about traffic safety as an issue of importance commensurate with its impact on our society.
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Evaluating New Jersey's Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) System: A Model for the Nation? New Jersey possesses one of the strictest GDL implementations in the country. A cursory examination of New Jersey's teen crash risk showed promising results, necessitating a more in-depth examination to determine the true impact of its GDL laws. The study revealed significant reductions in crashes, injuries and deaths among 17 and 18-year olds, indicating New Jersey may indeed be a good model for other states to follow.
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Nationwide Review of Graduated Driver Licensing reports the overall national impact of graduated driver licensing programs on fatal crashes and injury crashes of 16-year-old drivers.
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Guidelines for Evaluating Driver Education Programs is a three-volume set of guidelines for conducting thorough evaluations of driver education programs for beginning drivers.
- The Management Overview provides a high-level overview of why evaluation is important and what is involved in conducting a sound evaluation.
- The How-to Guide provides a hands-on manual for a driving school conducting a basic evaluation of its own program.
- The Comprehensive Guidelines provides both theoretical grounding in evaluation research and step-by-step guidance for the most rigorous, intensive level of evaluation. This is intended to serve as a reference for researchers and professional evaluators.
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Reducing the Crash Risk for Young Drivers reports on the experiences and crash patterns of newly-licensed teenage drivers in three jurisdictions with differing graduated driver licensing programs.
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Unlicensed To Kill: The Sequel Sequel follows up on a previous AAA Foundation study that found that one in five fatal crashes involve at least one driver who did not have a valid license, this study examines the practices of several states for addressing the issue of unlicensed drivers.
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Roadwise Review Online - This screening tool is a completely free online version of AAA's Roadwise Review CDROM. Roadwise Online tests certain physical, cognitive, and visual measures that are important for safe driving. This program is discrete and does not collect or transmit any personally identifiable information. Microsoft Windows only.
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Driver Licensing Policy and Practices - As a follow-up to the License Policy workshop, the Foundation began work on a project documenting North American driver's license agency approaches for improving safety for older and medically at-risk drivers. The project surveyed state and provincial licensing officials to obtain updated information on current policies and practices. Additional detail was gathered on promising or innovative programs and activities that might be replicated elsewhere. Both the policies/practices and noteworthy initiatives are summarized in a searchable online database for use by driver licensing officials, policy makers, aging services providers, researchers, and media personnel, as well as older adults and their families.
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Older Adults’ Knowledge About Medications That Can Impact Driving - Using a cross-sectional survey this project provided information regarding senior drivers knowledge of the potential impact that prescription and over the counter medication use has on their ability to safely operate a motor vehicle.The study yielded new information about knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors of people age 55 and over with respect to medications and driving.
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Medical Fitness to Drive and a Voluntary State Reporting Law - A Missouri state law helps prevent unsafe drivers from continuing to drive and could serve as a model law for the rest of the country.
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Use of Advanced In-Vehicle Technology by Younger and Older Early Adopters surveyed thousands of drivers, a large proportion of whom are seniors, to gain insight into their understanding, acceptance, and use of four specific relatively newer in-vehicle technologies.
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North American Driver Licensing Policy Workshop - The AAA Foundation hosted an expert workshop to:
- Synthesize the present state of knowledge regarding the identification and screening of and interventions for high-risk drivers as it relates to the ability of aging drivers to continue to drive safely,
- Develop a consensus-based set of recommendations
- Identify the most important knowledge gaps and research needs related to older driver safety
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Enhancing Senior's Driving Performance reports the results of a randomized
controlled study of the impact of a driver training course, consisting of
both classroom-based and behind-the-wheel instruction, on the driving skills
and knowledge of senior drivers."
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Getting Around: Alternatives for Seniors Who No Longer Drive is a compilation project (report, website, PBS broadcast video) examining the transportation safety issues and solutions for seniors and their families who are considering cessation of driving.
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Pedestrian Signal Safety for Older Persons analyzes the walking speeds of
older and younger pedestrians in six communities and reports the results of
simulation-based case studies that investigate whether traffic signals can
allow more time for pedestrians to cross the street without causing great
increases in delay for vehicles.
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Older Driver Involvement in Injury Crashes in Texas investigates the factors leading to the crashes of older drivers, by analyzing 25 years of data on crashes in the state of Texas.
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usRAP: The U.S. Road Assessment Program Phase I investigated the technical and political feasibility of implementing a program in the United States to rate the relative safety of roads based on their crash history and their design features. This report describes the initial pilot study and its findings. To learn more about current usRAP activities, visit the usRAP home page, www.usrap.us. |
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Safety Impacts of Pavement Edge Drop-Offs examines the prevalence of pavement edge drop-off—a condition in which the shoulder or the edge of the road is lower than the paved travel lane—in several states, and also surveys state practices for monitoring and repairing drop-off, and assesses the relationship between drop-off depth and crash risk. The report also includes recommendations from the project’s advisory panel of experts and stakeholders.
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Interventions to Increase Booster Seat Use for Children Aged 4-8 Years examines research on the effectiveness of various types of interventions to increase booster seat use.
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Seated For Safety summarizes a study that explored the content and availability of child passenger safety educational materials in the United States, identified content gaps in the available materials, and characterized the overall quality of materials. |
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Aggressive Driving: Research Update finds that aggressive driving is a factor in up to 56% of deadly vehicle crashes. Motorists are concerned with others’ aggressive driving while many are guilty themselves.
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Short Term License Suspension for Drinking Drivers assesses the impact of a law enacted in Saskatchewan, Canada, that allows police to suspend the license of a driver for a period of 24 hours if the driver has a blood alcohol concentration higher than .04 g/dL, even if the driver has not consumed enough alcohol to be arrested for DWI.
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How Risky is It? An Assessment of the Relative Risk of Engaging in Potentially Unsafe Driving Behaviors analyses in-depth real-world driving data collected under a major study by Virginia Tech and the U.S. Department of Transportation, to assess the relative risk associated with various driver behaviors.
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The Role of Driver Distraction in Traffic Crashes analyzed data compiled by the U.S. Department of Transportation to assess the frequency with which various potential distractions contributed to crashes.
Distractions in Everyday Driving recorded and analyzed the driving of 70 study participants using in-vehicle cameras, to analyze what distractions drivers face and how frequently they engage in distracting tasks.
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Why Do People Have Drowsy Driving Crashes? Input from Drivers Who Just Did compares the sleep habits and other lifestyle factors of a sample of North Carolina drivers who were involved in recent crashes believed to have been related to drowsy driving, a sample of drivers involved in recent crashes not related to drowsy driving, and a sample of drivers not involved in any recent crashes.
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Recognize, React, Recover - South Carolina Run off the Road Campaign - The AAA Foundation partnered with the South Carolina Department of Transportation, Michelin, and others to highlight an important campaign to prevent drivers from running off the road in their vehicles. Whether distraction, mechanical failure or some other cause results in the vehicle leaving the road, countermeasures to warn and handle a run off the road emergency have been developed.
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Seatbelt Safety Curriculum for ESL Programs - ESL programs are taught throughout the United States at public libraries, schools, community centers, colleges, universities, and elsewhere. Most students in beginning-level ESL classes are recent immigrants, often from countries with different traffic safety practices. In 1998, Congress provided funding for integrated English literacy and civics education services for recent immigrants and others with limited English-language proficiency. This project developed a traffic safety curriculum that can be incorporated into beginning ESL programs to increase safety belt and child restraint use among new immigrants who enroll in these programs. The curriculum was developed with assistance from the Injury Prevention Center of Greater Dallas in collaboration with the Spring Institute of Denver Colorado.
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Screening Motor Vehicle Crash Patients in the Emergency Department provides background information on alcohol-related injury, screening, and interventions, and describes a project to increase alcohol screening of patients by emergency physicians.
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Traffic Safety Education Materials for Spanish-speaking Audiences describes the creation of Guidelines for Developing Traffic Safety Educational Materials for Spanish-speaking Audiences, which outlines the process of creating materials for speakers of Spanish, or adapting existing English-language materials to serve Spanish speakers.
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Crash Course: What to Know Before and After a Crash - In conjunction with Better Business Bureau (BBB), the AAA Foundation has developed and co-branded a consumer DVD/video entitled, "Crash Course: What to know before and after a crash".
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The Safety Impact of Vehicle-Related Road Debris discusses the dangers of road debris caused by unsecured loads, separated tires, and other vehicle-related sources, and estimates the number of crashes attributable to such debris each year.
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