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Road Safety 101. Tracking Your Progress Through Highway Safety Core Competencies. Core Competency 1: Core Competency 2: Core Competency 3: Core Competency 4: Core Competency 5:. The Nature of Road Safety The History and Institutional Settings of Road Safety Management
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Tracking Your Progress ThroughHighway Safety Core Competencies Core Competency 1: Core Competency 2: Core Competency 3: Core Competency 4: Core Competency 5: The Nature of Road Safety The History and Institutional Settings of Road Safety Management The Origins, Characteristics, and Uses of Crash Data Contributing Crash Factors, Countermeasure Selection, and Evaluation Road Safety Program Management
Tracking your way through Road Safety 101 Core Competency 1: The Nature of Road Safety Module 1: Road Safety Defined From a Science-Based Perspective Module 2: Road Safety – A Complex Field Module 3: Road Safety Demographics Module 4: Road User Decisions Module 5: Science-Based Road Safety Research Module 6: Intervention Tools and Countermeasures
Road Safety Defined Articulate a comprehensive definition of road safety.
Exercise 1: Defining Safety How do you define safety?
Various Definitions Public health Highway safety professional Design, maintenance, or operations engineer Transit Human Factors
Major Topics • The Science-Based Perspective • The Dynamics of a Crash • Models for Understanding and Explaining Crashes
A Definition of Road Safety Roadway safety is the number of accidents (crashes), or accident consequences, by kind and severity, expected to occur on the entity during a specific period. Ezra Hauer “ “
National Highway Fatalities and Fatality Rates 1988-2008* Source: Created by Cambridge Systematics based on fatality data retrieved from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) and vehicle miles traveled data (Federal Highway Administration. *2008 Preliminary data retrieved from NHTSA Traffic Safety Facts Research Note DOT HS 811 124 9 9 9
National Highway Injuries and Injury Rates 10 Source: Created by Cambridge Systematics based on injury data retrieved from NHTSA Traffic Crash Facts 2007
The Public Health Perspective • Events Causing Health Problems • Cancer • Heart disease • Stroke • Obesity • Suicide • Homicide • Population or Population Category • Cancer cases per capita • Number of attempted suicides by age and gender categories • Exposure to Risk
10 Leading Causes of Death by Age Group, United States─ 2006
The Dynamics of a Crash Kinetic Energy: The energy an object possesses because of its motion
The Dynamics of a Crash The Dynamics of a Crash • Slide 2: Explain and define crush energy (include image below) Crush energy: Deformation of car and human parts
Review • Road Safety Defined from a Science-Based Perspective • The Dynamics of a Crash • Models for Understanding and Explaining Crashes