Nat’l Academies Report Targets Roadway Safety Improvements

AASHTO

September 27, 2024

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine or NASEM recently issued a new report that seeks to eliminate “significant gaps and shortcomings” in current transportation policies in order to reduce U.S. roadway deaths and injuries.

That report – entitled “Tackling the Road Safety Crisis: Saving Lives Through Research and Action” – offers a “coordinated set” of actions intended to achieve more “impactful outcomes” that can be sustained over time. With the “right changes in strategy,” the report states that evidence-based research on road safety can be translated into practice and that the U.S. can make meaningful advances in reducing traffic fatalities and injuries.

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