- Topic Submission
- Discussion & Evaluation
- Development
- Project
Social & Cultural
Traffic Safety
Is this related to or a continuation of a previous Iowa DOT research project?
No
Does this idea include matching funds?
No
Anticipated Benefits
First, the partnership may generate ideas for general “services and tools” within the general “action framework” developed by the CHSC to meet the traffic safety goals of most partners. For example, stakeholders participating at the recent National Roadway Safety Culture Summit identified a number of common needs to support the transformation of a positive safety culture for the driving public and traffic safety organizations:
• Develop online courses for workforce development in the understanding and application of traffic safety culture transformation methods.
• Explore, synthesize, and define noteworthy practices both within and outside the transportation industry for developing and sustaining an organizational safety culture.
• Identify strategies, develop transformational leadership training, and develop supporting materials to help leadership promote traffic safety culture.
• Develop standardized survey tools, administration protocols, and analysis methods to access impacts of efforts to transform traffic safety culture.
• Create repository of relevant literature and case studies of best practice relevant to the transformation of traffic safety culture and the formation of safety culture partnerships.
• Create an online forum to which professionals (professional societies and other stakeholder groups) can collaborate to promote safety culture.
Second, this program could conduct research directed to traffic safety problems that have a common cultural component shared by many communities and jurisdictions across the participating partners. For example, there are common behavioral risk factors that are evident both at the national level and identified in many state Strategic Highway Safety Plans (SHSP).
Third, this program can also be used to implement a limited number of demonstration projects of specific traffic safety culture transformation studies within a few selected communities. Examples of possible types of projects are listed in the attached document. These projects may also be identified from the parallel and complementary NCHRP 17-69 research effort to develop a strategic plan for transforming traffic safety culture. These efforts could then be applied to every state that develops a strategic highway safety plan (SHSP) with an interest in transforming safety culture among the agency and driving population. Depending on the results, these projects can then be modified and expanded for implementation within other partner communities. This could be done either within the current program or as a separate pooled fund project amongst participating partners.
• Develop online courses for workforce development in the understanding and application of traffic safety culture transformation methods.
• Explore, synthesize, and define noteworthy practices both within and outside the transportation industry for developing and sustaining an organizational safety culture.
• Identify strategies, develop transformational leadership training, and develop supporting materials to help leadership promote traffic safety culture.
• Develop standardized survey tools, administration protocols, and analysis methods to access impacts of efforts to transform traffic safety culture.
• Create repository of relevant literature and case studies of best practice relevant to the transformation of traffic safety culture and the formation of safety culture partnerships.
• Create an online forum to which professionals (professional societies and other stakeholder groups) can collaborate to promote safety culture.
Second, this program could conduct research directed to traffic safety problems that have a common cultural component shared by many communities and jurisdictions across the participating partners. For example, there are common behavioral risk factors that are evident both at the national level and identified in many state Strategic Highway Safety Plans (SHSP).
Third, this program can also be used to implement a limited number of demonstration projects of specific traffic safety culture transformation studies within a few selected communities. Examples of possible types of projects are listed in the attached document. These projects may also be identified from the parallel and complementary NCHRP 17-69 research effort to develop a strategic plan for transforming traffic safety culture. These efforts could then be applied to every state that develops a strategic highway safety plan (SHSP) with an interest in transforming safety culture among the agency and driving population. Depending on the results, these projects can then be modified and expanded for implementation within other partner communities. This could be done either within the current program or as a separate pooled fund project amongst participating partners.
Focus Area
Safety
Research Program
SPR / 776: Pooled Fund Studies - IA Participate
Project Title
Partnership for the Transformation of Traffic Safety Culture
Project Number
TPF-5(309)
Funding Program
State Planning and Research
Project Funding
$200,000
Project Funding Including External Sources
$1,225,000
Partner Agencies
California DOT
Connecticut DOT
Idaho DOT
Illinois DOT
Indiana DOT
Louisiana DOT
Montana DOT (Lead Agency)
Nevada DOT
New Hampshire DOT
Texas DOT
Utah DOT
Vermont DOT
Washington DOT
Connecticut DOT
Idaho DOT
Illinois DOT
Indiana DOT
Louisiana DOT
Montana DOT (Lead Agency)
Nevada DOT
New Hampshire DOT
Texas DOT
Utah DOT
Vermont DOT
Washington DOT
Project Start Date
10/01/2014
Current Project End Date
09/30/2019
Project Abstract
Project Complete Date
05/12/2022
Project Deliverables
Project Champion
Project Manager
Delivering targeted solutions for Iowa's transportation future.
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