Applying Civic Innovation Methods to Advance Safety Education: A Pilot Program

This effort, developed in partnership with the civic innovation firm Urban Impact Lab, seeks to integrate Safe Systems principles with new approaches to grassroots-organizing and civic engagement. Specifically, it seeks to: (1) Develop new, grassroots methods for engaging users on traffic safety; (2) Apply social learning principles to understand opportunities for integrating safety considerations into local cultures; (3) Collaborate with community stakeholders to proactively identify local safety needs, with a specific focus on mechanisms for engaging school-age students, who are important current users and future stakeholders, yet do not typically have a direct voice in planning or policy decisions; and (4) Pilot and test the effectiveness of these engagement techniques, and translate the results into model practices, activities, and programs that can be applied in other communities.

• Record URL:
  https://www.roadsafety.unc.edu/research/projects/2019r32/
• Supplemental Notes:
  • CSCRS2019R32

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $87952
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747113

• 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:

  Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety

  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Chapel Hill, NC  United States  27514
• Project Managers:

  Sandt, Laura

• Performing Organizations:

  Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton

  Boca Raton, FL  United States  33431
• Principal Investigators:

  Dumbaugh, Eric

• Start Date: 20190601
• Expected Completion Date: 20200901
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cooperation; Pilot studies; School children; Stakeholders; Traffic safety; Traffic safety education
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Safety and Human Factors; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01730770
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747113
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Feb 10 2020 10:39AM