Publication Details

Improving the safety of older road users

Type: Paper

Author(s): Stutts, Jane C.

Publisher: National Academy of Sciences

Url: https://doi.org/10.17226/13546

Publication Date: 2005

Isbn: 0309097525

Number: NCHRP Synthesis 348

Address: Washington, DC

Abstract: This synthesis is a ""snapshot"" of programs and policies in place across the country to improve the safety and mobility of older road users. The report will be useful to U.S. transportation agencies, as well as to others working in this topic area. The scope was intentionally broad, in an attempt to document the range of strategies and related programs underway in roadway engineering, driver licensing, public information and education, and enforcement and adjudication. This wide-ranging synthesis effort included a review of the literature, beginning with a search of U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Federal Highway Administration, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports and publications, supplemented by a Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) review. In addition, primarily web-related searches, with follow-up telephone contacts and interviews, were conducted of programs and activities of other agencies and organizations not captured in the published literature. These contacts included the American Society on Aging, American Association of Retired Persons, AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, American Medical Association, and National Association of Area Agencies on Aging. Individual surveys were developed to gather state-level information from four target sources: state DOTs and state offices of highway safety (24 returns), state motor vehicle departments (34 returns), and state units on aging (18 returns). Jane C. Stutts, UNC HSRC - Consultant