About Center for Excellence in Rural Safety
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The Center for Excellence in Rural Safety provides citizen-centered research, training, and outreach to enhance rural safety and to meet the online and seminar training needs of rural transportation practitioners and policymakers. The Center conducts several focused research activities to explore policy, behavior, and technology approaches, such as projects addressing safety-conscious planning, ITS and rural emergency response, integrated policy approaches, and related human factors, societal trends, and stakeholder needs analysis.
Congress created the Center for Excellence in Rural Safety in July 2005 as
part of a broader, multiyear, multimillion-dollar directive establishing four
national centers for surface transportation excellence in the Safe, Accountable,
Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU)
transportation funding legislation.
The Center is led by Lee Munnich of the University
of Minnesota's Humphrey
Institute of Public Affairs. The Center
for Transportation Studies, with
staff leadership from Robert Johns, is collaborating with the Humphrey Institute
to provide the Center's
outreach and training services.
Coordinating Organizations
Federal Highway Administration
The Federal Highway Administration is one of eleven modal administrations within the U.S. Department
of Transportation. FHWA is charged with the broad responsibility of ensuring that America’s roads and highways continue to be the safest and most technologically up-to-date.
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
The Hubert H. Humphrey Institute
of Public Affairs ranks
among the top 15 professional schools of public affairs at public
universities in the country; our program concentration in nonprofit
management ranks fifth in the nation. The Institute is widely recognized for its role in examining public issues and shaping public policy at the local, state, national, and international levels, and for providing leadership and management expertise to public and nonprofit organizations.
Center for Transportation Studies
The Center for Transportation
Studies (CTS) at the University of Minnesota addresses
the diverse and complex issues in the field of transportation
through multidisciplinary research, education, and outreach
programs. To accomplish this, the center serves as a
resource
and facilitator, helping University researchers develop new
knowledge about transportation and then helping share
that
knowledge with practitioners and policymakers. Ultimately,
this knowledge improves transportation decision making—meaning
better and safer transportation systems, smarter investments,
and a higher quality of life for Minnesota and the nation.
State and Local Policy Program
The State and Local Policy Program has been active in research and outreach since 1991 as part of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Its work focuses primarily in the areas of transportation technology and policy, as well as economic development and knowledge clusters.
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