A webinar of a stakeholder workshop to develop a national strategic highway safety plan is scheduled for Aug. 25-26, 2010, at the Transportation Research Board headquarters in Washington, DC. The webinar registration can be found at https://www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov/resources/webconference/viewconference.aspx?webconfid=20895. Participants can participate in all of the discussions as well as submit questions and comments via chat pods. Your input is needed to ensure consideration of a wide range of perspectives.
The national plan, titled Toward Zero Deaths: A National Strategy on Highway Safety, will be a data-driven effort focusing on identifying and creating opportunities for changing American culture as it relates to highway safety. The effort will also focus on developing strong leadership and champions in the organizations that can directly impact highway safety through engineering, enforcement, education, emergency medical service (EMS), policy, public health, communications, and other efforts. The national strategy will be used as a guide and framework by safety stakeholder organizations to enhance current national, state and local safety planning and implementation efforts. The intent is to develop a mechanism for bringing together a wider range of highway safety stakeholders to work toward institutional and cultural changes.
The purpose of the August 25-26 workshop is to gather input as the plan is being developed and to determine how the plan should be implemented once it is finalized. The plan will have a 25-year horizon, so it will be particularly important to discuss innovative countermeasures that go beyond the countermeasures already known to be effective or identify research that will create them. Also, the discussions will focus on identifying bold policies and programs to create significant change for safety.
Several white papers were drafted to provide technical information on various highway safety issues. In addition, four webinars were held to raise issues on specific highway safety topics and to solicit stakeholder input. The white papers and the webinar summaries that will serve as workshop resources for participants are available at the following web page: http://safety.transportation.org/activities.aspx .
At the meeting, there will be six breakout sessions in which stakeholders can discuss specific highway safety topics and provide input on them. After registration for the main webinar, you will be asked to choose a breakout session in which you would like to participate.
View more details in the draft agenda. If you have any questions, please contact Kelly Hardy at khardy@aashto.org or 202-624-5868.