PRIORITIZATION OF CRITICAL HIGHWAY SAFETY ISSUES OF SPECIAL POPULATION GROUPS

Highway safety needs of special population groups are different from each other and also from the average population. Florida's warm tropical climate and recreational amenities attract many special population. Six special population groups in Florida that were expected to experience some serious highway safety concerns were selected for the purpose of this study: older drivers, young drivers, international tourists, school-age children, new immigrants, and persons with disabilities. Ranking was developed among these special population groups, and critical issues under each group were ranked by applying a set of weights for different criteria considered important in the decision-making process. Two surveys seeking expert opinions of traffic/transportation/safety engineers, law enforcement officers, and administrative officers dealing with safety-related matters were conducted. The first survey was intended for the preliminary identification of the critical special population groups and also gave some ideas about the important issues and concerns. The second survey addressed a selected set of issues and concerns in detail.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Conference proceedings available only on CD-ROM.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Dissanayake, S
  • Lu, J J
• Conference:
  • Transportation Frontiers for the Next Millennium: 69th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Transportation Engineers
  • Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Date: 1999-8-1 to 1999-8-4
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 10p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged drivers; Foreign; Highway safety; Immigrants; International; Law enforcement personnel; Persons with disabilities; Ranking (Statistics); School children; Surveys; Teenage drivers; Tourists; Traffic engineers; Traffic safety
• Geographic Terms: Florida
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00770203
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Publication No. CD-006
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 14 1999 12:00AM