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Safety Culture Improving Traffic Safety Culture in the U.S.:
The Journey Forward

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In response to the voices of top experts and stakeholders from the traffic safety community, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has made a commitment to focus its research program on “traffic safety culture.” 
To initiate work in this new program, and to ignite serious discussion and debate over traffic safety, we commissioned a series of thought-provoking research papers in the Spring of 2006 addressing “traffic safety culture” from a variety of perspectives.  We hope that these papers will serve as a start along this new path.  Click here to download the full compendium" (PDF: 2.8 MB, 388 pages) or you may also download a brief Summary and Synthesis (PDF: 519KB) of the full compendium authored by Dr. James Hedlund..

Author

 

Title

J. Peter Kissinger

 

Preface

N/A

 

Introduction

Lawrence P. Lonero


 

Finding the next cultural paradigm for road safety

Connie L. McNeely
Jonathan L. Gifford


 

Effecting a Traffic Safety Culture: Lessons from Cultural Change Initiatives

David A. Sleet
T. Bella Dinh-Zarr
Ann M. Dellinger

 

Traffic safety in the context of public health and medicine

Jane Moeckli
John D. Lee

 

The Making of Driving Cultures

Allan F. Williams
Narelle Haworth

 

Overcoming Barriers to Creating a Well-functioning Safety Culture: A Comparison of Australia and the United States

Paul Allen
G. William Mercer


 

The role of public surveys in measuring program effectiveness and improving road safety

Douglas A. Wiegmann
Terry L. von Thaden
Alyssa Mitchell Gibbons

 

A review of safety culture theory and its potential application to traffic safety

Deborah C. Girasek

 

Moving America towards evidence-based approaches to traffic safety

Robert Foss

 

Addressing Behavioral Elements in Traffic Safety: A Recommended Approach

Frank P. McKenna

 

The perceived legitimacy of intervention: A key feature for road safety

Chris S. Dula
E. Scott Geller

 

Creating a Total Safety traffic culture

Karen Smith
John Martin

 

A barrier to building a traffic safety culture in America:  Understanding why drivers feel invulnerable and ambivalent when it comes to traffic safety.

James W. Jenness

 

Supporting highway safety culture by addressing anonymity

David W. Eby
C. Raymond Bingham

 

Customized Driver Feedback and Traffic-Safety Culture

Nicholas J. Ward


 

The culture of traffic safety in rural America

Barbara Harsha
James Hedlund

 

Changing America’s Culture of Speed on the Roads

John Martin
Karen Smith
Monica Worth

 

Aspects of meaning and relevance in media coverage of motor vehicle accidents

Fred Wegman

 

Road traffic in the Netherlands: Relatively safe but not safe enough!

Eric Howard
Peter Sweatman

 

Traffic Safety Culture: What is it and how do we improve it?

Ezra Hauer

 

A Case For Evidence-Based Road-Safety Delivery

Barbara Thomas Harder

 

Development of an implementation infrastructure to support a traffic safety culture

Geni Bahar
Nesta Morris

 

Is a strong safety culture taking root in our highway agencies?

 

 

 

About the Sponsor

These papers were funded by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1947, the AAA Foun­dation is a not-for-profit, publicly supported charitable research and education organization dedicated to saving lives by preventing traffic crashes and reducing injuries when crashes occur. Foundation funding is provided by voluntary contributions from AAA/CAA and their affiliated motor clubs, from individual members, from AAA-af­filiated insurance companies, as well as from other organizations and sources.

The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety distributes these papers at no charge, as a public service. They may not be resold or used for commercial purposes without the explicit permission of the Foundation and respective author(s). They may, however, be copied in whole or in part and distributed for free via any medium, provided the AAA Foundation and respective authors are given appropri­ate credit as the source of the material.

The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in these papers represent the views of the respective authors and do not represent the views of any organization or agency by which any of the authors is employed or with which any of the authors is affiliated.  The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety assumes no liability for the use or misuse of any information, opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations contained in these papers.

If trade or manufacturers’ names are mentioned, it is only because they are considered essential to the object of the article, and their mention should not be construed as an endorsement. The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety does not endorse products or manufacturers.

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