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  1. Characteristics of Traffic Crashes Among Young, Middle-aged, and Older Drivers — National (05/01/1999)

    Source: Expert

    This is a study of the varying characteristics of car crashes among young, middle-aged and older drivers.

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  2. State Highway Safety Offices / Countermeasures that Work — National 

    Source: US Department of Transportation

    Countermeasures That Work is intended to be reference guide for State Highway Safety Offices to help select effective, science based traffic safety countermeasures to address highway safety problems. 

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  3. Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Grant Program — National 

    Source: US Department of Transportation

    The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) established the new Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) discretionary program with $5 billion in appropriated funds over the next 5 years. 

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  4. Aging and Driving: A Comparison of Driving Performance Between Older and Younger Drivers in an On-Road Driving Test — National 

    Source: Expert

    The main purpose of this study was to explore if there were any differences in a group of young drivers ( 36,) and a group of elderly drivers 72) on driving performance and driving skills on a number of driving tasks. 

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  5. The Safer Streets Priority Finder — National 

    Source: Local Program

    This site enables you to analyze this risk to vulnerable road users (bicyclists and pedestrians on your community roads.)

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  6. Road to Zero: Doubling Down on What Works — National 

    Source: Nonprofit Organization

    The Doubling Down on What Works is a working group of the Road to Zero Coalition has created a clearinghouse for resources. 

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  7. Roadway Safety Guide — National 

    Source: Nonprofit Organization

    This community-oriented Guide is published by the Roadway Safety Foundation to help communicate key engineering and road design principles to lay audiences. It is a comprehensive resource and free of charge. 

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  8. Watching Out for Senior Walkers — National 

    Source: US Department of Transportation

    A workshop, created by NHTSA, was held in various cities to educate local transportation engineers, law enforcement officers, elected officials and others on senior pedestrian safety.

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  9. Data Visualization - Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) — National 

    Source: US Department of Transportation

    This portal presents interactive visualizations that focus on several highway safety topics of interest. These visualizations include multiple dashboards with information on fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes and fatalities based on data from NHTSA's Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). FARS contains data on every fatal traffic crash in the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. To be included in FARS, a crash must involve a motor vehicle traveling on a public trafficway and must result in the death of a vehicle occupant or a nonoccupant within 30 days of the crash.

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  10. Importance of Driving and Potential Impact of Driving Cessation for Rural and Urban Older Adults — National 

    Source: Expert

    Purpose Analyses compared older drivers from urban, suburban, and rural areas on perceived importance of continuing to drive and potential impact that driving cessation would have on what they want and need to do. Methods The AAA LongROAD Study is a prospective study of driving behaviors, patterns, and outcomes of older adults. A cohort of 2,990 women and men 65‐79 years of age was recruited during 2015‐2017 from health systems or primary care practices near 5 study sites in different parts of the United States.
     

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