PLANNING FOR CONCENTRATED IMPLEMENTATION OF HIGHWAY SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES - FINAL REPORT

ALTHOUGH THE SIXTEEN HIGHWAY SAFETY PROGRAM STANDARDS HAVE BEEN IN EFFECT FOR SOME TIME, THEIR ADOPTION BY THE INDIVIDUAL STATES HAS BEEN LESS THAN COMPLETE. TO CONVINCE THE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS THAT THE REQUIREMENTS IMPOSED BY THESE STANDARDS ARE WELL WORTH THEIR COST IN IMPROVED SAFETY BENEFITS, A NEED EXISTS FOR DETERMINING AND RANKING THE EFFICACY OF HIGHWAY SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES. THE MISCONCEPTIONS, PITFALLS AND POTENTIAL SUCCESSES THAT ABOUND IN THE EVALUATION OF SOCIAL SYSTEM CHANGES CONSTITUTE THE INITIAL SUBJECT OF THIS VOLUME. IT IS ARGUED THAT THE CAREFUL, BUT EXTENSIVE, MEASUREMENT OF ALL PERTINENT FACTORS IN THE ACTION OF A HIGHWAY SAFETY COUNTERMEASURE IS A NECESSARY APPROACH TO DETERMINING EFFICACY. BASED UPON THIS MEASUREMENT-ORIENTED APPROACH, A SUMMARY OF THE PROJECTED PROGRAM PLANS FOR THE SIXTEEN STANDARD AREAS IS PRESENTED. SIX PROGRAM CATEGORIES ARE DEFINED WHICH COVER THE RANGE OF ACTIVITIES DEFINED BY THE STANDARDS; MOREOVER, THESE PROGRAM CATEGORIES GROUP COUNTERMEASURE TYPES THAT ARE AMENABLE TO SIMULTANEOUS EVALUATION. PROGRAM PLANS FOR EACH OF THE SIX EVALUATION EXPERIMENTS ARE DESCRIBED BRIEFLY IN THIS VOLUME. EXPERIMENTS INCLUDE THE CATEGORIES: (1) ROAD USER REGULATION, (2) INFORMATION FLOW, (3) ROAD USER PREPARATION, (4) VEHICLE REGULATION, (5) SYSTEM RESTORATION AND (6) HIGHWAY REGULATION. /HSRI/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Vol 1, Hsri-71-117, 42 PP, FIGS, REFS
• Corporate Authors:

  Highway Safety Research Institute

  Huron Parkway and Baxter Road
  Ann Arbor, MI  United States  48109
• Authors:
  • O'Day, J
• Publication Date: 1971-8

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Administration; Countermeasures; Economic efficiency; Evaluation; Highway safety; Information dissemination; Laws; Motor vehicles; Standards; Travelers
• Uncontrolled Terms: Efficiency
• Old TRIS Terms: Motor vehicle laws & regulations
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Economics; Highways; Law; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221609
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Research Institute
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 23 1972 12:00AM