PARTNERS FOR CHILD PASSENGER SAFETY: AN INDUSTRY/ACADEMIC RESEARCH COLLABORATION

Motor vehicle crashes remain the leading cause of death and disability for children over the age of one year. Partners for Child Passenger Safety (PCPS) is a unique research collaboration between the largest insurer of private passenger vehicles in the United States and a leading pediatric hospital. State Farm Insurance Companies' claim experience representing one in every five crashes across the United States. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is an internationally recognized center of excellence for research into childhood mortality and morbidity. This unique industry-academic partnership seeks to offer crucial real world data to reduce the burden of crash related pediatric injuries and deaths. Currently in its fifth year, the study continues to provide child safety advocates, physicians, regulators, and vehicle manufacturers with information that both confirms earlier beliefs and sheds new light about how children are injured in car crashes. The multi-disciplinary approach taken in designing and conducting this research ensures that the results will be of interest to a wide-ranging audience. This paper provides a background of the PCPS project, describes the research design and implementation, and illustrates the traffic safety benefits derived from joining the expertise of two diverse organizations. Implications for the traffic engineering community are presented as the basis for loss prevention activities within the engineering sector.

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  Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Roberson, S
  • Arbogast, K
  • WERNER, J
• Conference:
  • ITE 2001 Annual Meeting and Exhibit
  • Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Date: 2001-8-19 to 2001-8-22
• Publication Date: 2001-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 13p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile insurance; Benefits; Children; Design; Fatalities; Hospitals; Implementation; Injuries; Injury characteristics; Multidisciplinary teams; Partnerships; Passengers; Research; Traffic crash victims; Traffic crashes; Traffic engineering; Traffic safety
• Identifier Terms: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; State Farm Insurance Companies
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Passenger Transportation; Research; Safety and Human Factors; I80: Accident Studies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00824740
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0935403620
• Report/Paper Numbers: CD-013
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 13 2002 12:00AM