AN EVALUATION OF THE HIGHWAY SAFETY PROGRAM--A REPORT TO THE CONGRESS FROM THE SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION

This report recommends that the Federal insistence on mandatory compliance with each of the present 18 Highway Safety Program Standards be replaced with a more flexible stance. It is also recommended that greater reliance must be placed upon state and local highway safety agencies to identify their most pressing problems and advance appropriate solutions to them. The analyses and findings are summarized, and a background to the program is provided. The highway safety program is reappraised and recommendations are provided with respect to: future highway safety standards, sanctions, incentives, Federal-State relations, state-local relations, and the role of the private sector. A detailed evaluation of the adequacy and appropriateness of the existing Standards is presented as well as several appendices containing study methodologies, representative highway safety community comments, and findings by the National Highway Safety Advisory Committee

• Corporate Authors:

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1977-7

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: v.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Evaluation; Federal government; Highway safety; Intergovernmental relations; Local government agencies; Private enterprise; Standards; State government
• Uncontrolled Terms: Local agencies
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00165934
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT-HS-802 481
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: May 3 1978 12:00AM