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A united effort by state and federal agencies to save more lives.

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
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Drivers

The subject area Drivers encompasses everything from graduated licensing for young drivers to curbing aggressive driving, from reducing impaired driving and keeping drivers alert to methods of increasing driver safety awareness and seat belt usage.

• Goal 1: Instituting Graduated Licensing for Young Drivers
• Goal 2: Ensuring Drivers are Fully Licensed and Competent
• Goal 3: Sustaining Proficiency in Older Drivers
• Goal 4: Curbing Aggressive Driving
• Goal 5: Reducing Impaired Driving
• Goal 6: Keeping Drivers Alert
• Goal 7: Increasing Driver Safety Awareness
• Goal 8: Increasing Seatbelt Usage and Improving Airbag Awareness

Special Users/Nonmotorized

Special Users use non-motorized modes of transportation on highways. Pedestrians and bicyclists are two examples.

• Goal 9: Making Walking and Street Crossing Safer
• Goal 10: Ensuring Safer Bicycle Travel

Vehicles

Vehicles addresses motorcycle and commercial truck safety and vehicle safety enhancements such as antilock brake systems (ABS).

• Goal 11: Improving Motorcycle Safety and Increasing Motorcycle Awareness
• Goal 12: Making Truck Travel Safer
• Goal 13: Increasing Safety Enhancements in Vehicles

Highways

Vehicle-train crashes, highway intersection design and operation, head-on and across-median crashes and work zones are some of the problem areas discussed in Highways.

• Goal 14: Reducing Vehicle-Train Crashes
• Goal 15: Keeping Vehicles on the Roadway
• Goal 16: Minimizing the Consequences of Leaving the Road
• Goal 17: Improving the Design and Operation of Highway Intersections
• Goal 18: Reducing Head-on and Across-median Crashes
• Goal 19: Designing Safer Work Zones

Emergency Medical Services

EMS capabilities can be enhanced to increase survivability of crash victims.

• Goal 20: Enhancing Emergency Medical Capabilities to Increase Survivability

Management

The Management area deals with problems in gathering and analyzing crash data.

• Goal 21: Improving Information and Decision Support Systems
• Goal 22: Creating More Effective Processes and Safety Management Systems