New guide helps local leaders improve road safety in communities
The 2014 Roadway Safety Guide: A Primer for Community Leaders, published by the Roadway Safety Foundation (RSF), is now available online at www.roadwaysafety.org.
R oadway Safety Guide: A Primer for Community Leaders
The Roadway Safety Guide is a hands-on, user-friendly document designed to provide local elected officials and community leaders with basic information to improve roadway safety in their communities.
Originally published by RSF in 2000, this updated version includes information on numerous new technologies and engineering treatments like modern roundabouts and median barriers that have been revised with years of safety research and data now supporting their implementation.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, motor vehicle crashes and fatalities increased in 2012 after six consecutive years of declining highway fatalities on the nation's highways. In 2012, roadway crashes claimed 33,561 lives, compared to 32,479 in 2011.
The guide includes helpful information such as checklists for identifying roadway trouble spots, information on building successful coalitions and tips for getting concerns prioritized by the right people who can address them.
Written for non-engineers, it retains the readability that made the first edition so popular, and draws people from all backgrounds into the roadway safety conversation.
The guide is easy to navigate and includes many features that make it user-friendly. It includes a tool that makes it searchable by word, as well as direct links to each chapter from the table of contents, Web links to resources and social media sharing links.
The guide is sponsored by several RSF members and safety partners, including the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, the American Traffic Safety Services Association, State Farm, the National Association of County Engineers, the American Bus Association and Transpo Industries.
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