Rural Traffic Safety in the Northern Rocky Mountain Region Revisited
This report seeks to update and expand upon a 2007 (Vachal and McGowan) report by determining changes in traffic safety policy that may have occurred in each of the Northern Rocky Mountain Region (NRMR) states (Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming) between 2006 and 2010. The report will ascertain what affect those policy changes have had on specific traffic safety issues, and compare each of the NRMR states with one another, with the NRMR region as a whole, and with the United States overall. In general, NRMR State Highway Safety Plan/Highway Safety Plans continue to focus on aggressive driving/speeding, impaired driving, seat belt use, graduate driver licensing, motorcycle safety and pedestrian safety. Traffic fatalities have declined in this region. There have been few changes made to NRMR state traffic safety policies from 2006 to 2010, so the likelihood that these declines resulted from changes in state law is low. Future research is needed to explain the decline in traffic fatalities in the NRMR.
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Corporate Authors:
Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute
North Dakota State University
1320 Albrecht Boulevard
Fargo, ND United States 581052 -
Authors:
- Huseth, Andrea
- Berwick, Mark
- Vachal, Kimberly
- Publication Date: 2011-5
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 63p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Drunk driving; Fatalities; Graduated licensing; Pedestrian safety; Policy; Rural areas; Seat belt use; Speeding; Traffic safety
- Candidate Terms: Aggressive driving
- Uncontrolled Terms: Motorcycle safety
- Geographic Terms: Rocky Mountain States
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01446499
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: DP-241
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Sep 19 2012 1:28PM