Enhancing Road Safety for Local Rural and Tribal Persistent Poverty Communities in the Northern Plains: A Research and Outreach Initiative for Safer Journeys

The goal is to continue working with Regional LTAPs, TTAPs, CTIPS partners, and Transportation Research Board committees to identify traffic safety priorities for rural communities and Tribal Nations in the Northern Plains so institutional capacity can be strengthened to ensure safe journeys on local and tribal roads based on proactive traffic safety planning, programs, policies, and resource decisions. Objective 1: Engage with local and tribal communities to strengthen traffic safety information. Supporting road inventory/maintenance, crash documentation, education, enforcement, and post-crash EMS response as essential foundation knowledge. Identify purposeful action to ensure continuity of agency commitment and community recognition of traffic safety as a priority through program documentation and succession strategies. Objective 2: Support the FHWA Safe System approach. Community wellness and shared responsibility in safe journeys for members and guests are achieved through this holistic approach. Objective 3: Recognize, recommend ways, and produce practitioner resources to redress the well-documented needs of highly rural and persistent poverty communities for resources to access, community connectivity, and capacity building to proactively promote and sustain safe journeys on local and tribal roads.

Language

  • English

Project

  • Status: Active
  • Funding: $531,346.00
  • Contract Numbers:

    69A3552348308

  • Sponsor Organizations:

    Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

    University Transportation Centers Program
    Department of Transportation
    Washington, DC  United States  20590
  • Managing Organizations:

    Center for Transformative Infrastructure Preservation and Sustainability

    North Dakota State University
    Fargo, North Dakota  United States  58108-6050
  • Project Managers:

    Tolliver, Denver

  • Performing Organizations:

    Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute

    North Dakota State University
    1320 Albrecht Boulevard
    Fargo, ND  United States  581052
  • Principal Investigators:

    Hall, Ron

    Vachal, Kimberly

  • Start Date: 20241219
  • Expected Completion Date: 20261218
  • Actual Completion Date: 0
  • USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program
  • Source Data: CTIPS-040

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 01942526
  • Record Type: Research project
  • Source Agency: Center for Transformative Infrastructure Preservation and Sustainability
  • Contract Numbers: 69A3552348308
  • Files: UTC, RIP
  • Created Date: Jan 14 2025 2:48PM