RELEVANCE OF UNITED STATES HIGHWAY SAFETY EXPERIENCE TO PROGRAMS IN OTHER COUNTRIES AND VICE VERSA

Components of highway safety programs in other nations are often recommended for adoption in the United States and those here are sometimes tried elsewhere, the assumption in both cases being that program elements have universal relevance. This assumption overlooks the natural history of crash experience in which rates per unit vehicle and unit of travel usually decrease over time as more vehicles are introduced while those per unit population and absolute number of deaths increase, for reasons often unrelated to program elements. Several cultural, environmental and medical or related issues also affect safety programming and this must be considered in attempting to apply programs from one nation to another or even from one population to another within a single nation. (Author/TRRL)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, October 3-6, 1983.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Association for Automotive Medicine

  P.O. Box 222
  Morton Grove, IL  United States  60053
• Authors:
  • Waller, J A
• Conference:
  • 27TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR AUTOMOTIVE MEDICINE
  • Location: San Antonio Texas, United States
  • Date: 1983-10-3 to 1983-10-6
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 323-334
• Monograph Title: PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, USA, OCTOBER 3-6, 1983. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR AUTOMOTIVE MEDICINE

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Applications; Attitudes; Conferences; Constraints; Crash rates; Driving; Education; Evaluation and assessment; Fatalities; Foreign; International; Law enforcement; Police; Population; Safety programs; Sociology; Variables
• ITRD Terms: 2267: Attitude (psychol); 8525: Conference; 1855: Driving (veh); 2284: Education; 1534: Enforcement (law); 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 1602: Fatality; 9034: International; 1522: Police; 335: Population; 2253: Sociology
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; Society; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00389449
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• Files: HSL, ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 30 1984 12:00AM