Topic: Enforcement
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Estimated medical cost savings in New Hampshire by implementation of a primary seat belt law (PDF)
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2008
Evaluation of seven publicized enforcement demonstration programs to reduce impaired driving: Georgia, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Indiana, and Michigan (PDF)
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2008
TACT (Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks) Program
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 2008
This web site aims to help States plan and implement a high-visibility traffic enforcement program. The provided information and tools are designed to help States educate motorists about the dangers of unsafe driving behaviors committed by cars around trucks, trucks around trucks, and trucks around other types of motor vehicles.
West Virginia's Impaired Driving High-Visibility Enforcement Campaign, 2003-2005 (PDF)
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2007
DOT HS 810 792
In 2002, West Virginia became a Strategic Evaluation State for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Impaired Driving High-Visibility Enforcement campaign. The State implemented NHTSA's model publicity and enforcement program in targeted counties to reduce impaired driving and alcohol-related fatalities. The State spent nearly $3.4 million on the campaign from 2003 through 2005, or an average of about 62 cents per resident each year. The campaign began during the July 4th holiday period in 2003 and was sustained for the next 27 months, running through September 2005. Statewide DMV surveys in targeted counties indicated that drivers reported significantly more often after the campaign that they had heard about impaired driving in West Virginia and had been through a sobriety checkpoint. Roadside surveys of driver blood alcohol concentrations (BAC) indicated a significant decrease in the proportion of drivers with a positive BAC at the end of the campaign compared to the same period the previous year. In addition, autoregressive integrated moving average analysis performed on the alcohol-related fatality trend for the targeted counties indicated a significant decrease by an estimated 1 fewer fatality each month. The total fatalities saved in the target counties totaled about 18 in the year and a half of data available following the July 2003 start of the campaign.
Strategic Evaluation States Initiative - Alaska, Georgia, and West Virginia
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 2008
This report explores the impaired driving enforcement and communication activities in Alaska, Georgia, and West Virginia, all of which participated in NHTSA's strategic evaluation states program between 2002 and 2005.
USLIMITS
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
USLIMITS is a web-based expert speed zoning advisor to assist in setting appropriate and consistent speed limits. It provides an objective and consistent process for incorporating the various factors that may be considered in the decision-making process according to the MUTCD but for which no guidance is provided.
Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Minnesota Speed Management Program
Minnesota Department of Transportation, 2007
The Minnesota Speed Management Program (MSMP), a cooperative project between the Minnesota Department of Transportation and the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, was developed within the framework of the Minnesota Comprehensive Highway Safety Plan. The overall goal was to reduce the number of fatal and life-changing crashes on Minnesota highways. The MSMP, in concert with other efforts that are part of the Minnesota Comprehensive Highway Safety Plan, resulted in reductions in the number of speeders on Minnesota Highways and reductions in the number of fatal and life-changing crashes, making Minnesota’s roads safer.
Technologies for Improving Safety Data
Transportation Research Board, 2007
NCHRP Synthesis 367
The objective of this synthesis was to summarize the current state-of-the-practice and state-of-the-art utilization of technologies for efficient and effective collection and maintenance of data for highway safety analysis. Technologies have been suggested by previous research reports as providing a means by which to overcome many of the limitations surrounding safety data. This synthesis documents a number of successful implementations of technologies whereby the following measures of safety data were improved: Timeliness, Accuracy, Completeness, Comprehensiveness, Efficiency, and Integration.
Low-Staffing Sobriety Checkpoints
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 2006
DOT HS 810 590
The document provides guidance to law enforcement agencies on how to adequately coordinate the planning, operation, data collection, and actions of conducting low-staffing sobriety checkpoints.
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