Review of Behavioral Traffic Safety Efforts Undertaken by State Highway Safety Offices and Other Safety Organizations to Engage Underserved Communities

Traffic crash fatalities disproportionately affect Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC). This longstanding and systemic problem reinforces the need to more equitably implement highway safety programs, with an increased focus on underserved populations. State Highway Safety Offices (SHSOs) and other safety organizations have undertaken a variety of efforts to more effectively engage underserved communities. But despite such past and present activities, these state and local efforts are fragmented, and not documented. SHSOs, their subrecipients, and other safety organizations would benefit from information regarding past and ongoing efforts that effectively engage underserved communities to address critical safety issues. Identifying lessons learned, best practices and recommendations would be very helpful to this audience. The objective of this is research is to document efforts undertaken by SHSOs and other highway safety organizations to increase engagement with underserved communities and develop a noteworthy practices guide, including lessons learned and recommendations. Availability of this information can help inform to the SHSOs, their subrecipients and others working in highway safety bolster their engagement and outreach efforts with at-risk and underserved communities.

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=5572
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Contract to a Performing Organization has not yet been awarded.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Proposed
• Funding: $500000
• Contract Numbers:

  Project BTS-34

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  Governors Highway Safety Association

  444 N. Capitol Street, NW, Suite 722
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, D.C.  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Retting, Richard

• Start Date: 20230704
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Equity; Highway safety; Lessons learned; Minorities; Safety programs
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01886953
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project BTS-34
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Jul 4 2023 1:04PM