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TRANSPORTAT ION RESEARCH BOARD WASHINGTON, D.C. 2010 www.TRB.org N A T I O N A L C O O P E R A T I V E H I G H W A Y R E S E A R C H P R O G R A M NCHRP REPORT 667 Subscriber Categories Highways • Education and Training • Safety and Human Factors Model Curriculum for Highway Safety Core Competencies CAMBRIDGE SYSTEMATICS, INC. Bethesda, MD AMERICAN COURSEWARE COMPANY (ACC) Lake Mary, FL ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Tempe, AZ PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY State Park, PA UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh, PA Research sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration

NATIONAL COOPERATIVE HIGHWAY RESEARCH PROGRAM Systematic, well-designed research provides the most effective approach to the solution of many problems facing highway administrators and engineers. Often, highway problems are of local interest and can best be studied by highway departments individually or in cooperation with their state universities and others. However, the accelerating growth of highway transportation develops increasingly complex problems of wide interest to highway authorities. These problems are best studied through a coordinated program of cooperative research. In recognition of these needs, the highway administrators of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials initiated in 1962 an objective national highway research program employing modern scientific techniques. This program is supported on a continuing basis by funds from participating member states of the Association and it receives the full cooperation and support of the Federal Highway Administration, United States Department of Transportation. The Transportation Research Board of the National Academies was requested by the Association to administer the research program because of the Board’s recognized objectivity and understanding of modern research practices. The Board is uniquely suited for this purpose as it maintains an extensive committee structure from which authorities on any highway transportation subject may be drawn; it possesses avenues of communications and cooperation with federal, state and local governmental agencies, universities, and industry; its relationship to the National Research Council is an insurance of objectivity; it maintains a full-time research correlation staff of specialists in highway transportation matters to bring the findings of research directly to those who are in a position to use them. The program is developed on the basis of research needs identified by chief administrators of the highway and transportation departments and by committees of AASHTO. Each year, specific areas of research needs to be included in the program are proposed to the National Research Council and the Board by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. Research projects to fulfill these needs are defined by the Board, and qualified research agencies are selected from those that have submitted proposals. Administration and surveillance of research contracts are the responsibilities of the National Research Council and the Transportation Research Board. The needs for highway research are many, and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program can make significant contributions to the solution of highway transportation problems of mutual concern to many responsible groups. The program, however, is intended to complement rather than to substitute for or duplicate other highway research programs. Published reports of the NATIONAL COOPERATIVE HIGHWAY RESEARCH PROGRAM are available from: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 and can be ordered through the Internet at: http://www.national-academies.org/trb/bookstore Printed in the United States of America NCHRP REPORT 667 Project 17-40 ISSN 0077-5614 ISBN 978-0-309-15510-6 Library of Congress Control Number 2010937723 © 2010 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. COPYRIGHT INFORMATION Authors herein are responsible for the authenticity of their materials and for obtaining written permissions from publishers or persons who own the copyright to any previously published or copyrighted material used herein. Cooperative Research Programs (CRP) grants permission to reproduce material in this publication for classroom and not-for-profit purposes. Permission is given with the understanding that none of the material will be used to imply TRB, AASHTO, FAA, FHWA, FMCSA, FTA, or Transit Development Corporation endorsement of a particular product, method, or practice. It is expected that those reproducing the material in this document for educational and not-for-profit uses will give appropriate acknowledgment of the source of any reprinted or reproduced material. For other uses of the material, request permission from CRP. NOTICE The project that is the subject of this report was a part of the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, conducted by the Transportation Research Board with the approval of the Governing Board of the National Research Council. The members of the technical panel selected to monitor this project and to review this report were chosen for their special competencies and with regard for appropriate balance. The report was reviewed by the technical panel and accepted for publication according to procedures established and overseen by the Transportation Research Board and approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council. The opinions and conclusions expressed or implied in this report are those of the researchers who performed the research and are not necessarily those of the Transportation Research Board, the National Research Council, or the program sponsors. The Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, the National Research Council, and the sponsors of the National Cooperative Highway Research Program do not endorse products or manufacturers. Trade or manufacturers’ names appear herein solely because they are considered essential to the object of the report.

CRP STAFF FOR NCHRP REPORT 667 Christopher W. Jenks, Director, Cooperative Research Programs Crawford F. Jencks, Deputy Director, Cooperative Research Programs Charles W. Niessner, Senior Program Officer Eileen P. Delaney, Director of Publications Maria Sabin Crawford, Assistant Editor NCHRP PROJECT 17-40 PANEL Field of Traffic—Area of Safety O. A. “Sam” Elrahman, New York State DOT, Watervliet, NY (Chair) Martin Lipinski, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN Scott E. Nodes, Arizona DOT, Phoenix, AZ James L. Pline, Pline Engineering, Inc., Boise, ID Timothy L. Powers, Texas DOT, Dallas, TX Xiaoduan Sun, University of Louisiana - Lafayette, Lafayette, LA Michael Trentacoste, Federal Highway Administration, McLean, VA Vicky Sue Williams, Missouri DOT, Jefferson City, MO Terecia W. Wilson, South Carolina DOT, Columbia, SC R. Benjamin “Ben” Gribbon, FHWA Liaison Richard Pain, TRB Liaison C O O P E R A T I V E R E S E A R C H P R O G R A M S

This report and enclosed CD-ROM presents course materials, including the instructor’s guide and student workbook, for a fundamental highway safety training course. The course presents the core competencies all highway safety practitioners should have or acquire. The CD also includes a brochure and short Microsoft Power Point presentation for marketing the training course. The report will be of particular interest to personnel responsible for pro- fessional staff development and managing safety programs. The highway safety field draws upon engineering, economics, public law and policy, law enforcement, psychology/human factors, social marketing, medicine, public health, admin- istration, education, statistics, and physics, among others. It is a specialized field created by the landmark Highway Safety Act of 1966. Many of the professionals drawn into the field during the early days have retired or soon will be retiring. The need for professionals to replace them is a serious challenge, and the means of recruiting, educating, and training future highway safety professionals are inadequate. It is also necessary to provide education and training for existing professionals to enhance their highway safety background and/or knowledge. A workshop organized by Institute of Transportation Engineers, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials through the Standing Commit- tee on Highway Traffic Safety, Federal Highway Administration, and the Transportation Research Board clearly defined the seriousness and critical nature of the problem. A scan of university highway safety education and training programs further emphasized the void by finding a lack of broad-based, multidisciplinary safety educational offerings at the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels In light of the findings from that scan, a set of “core competencies” for highway safety pro- fessionals was developed (see NCHRP Research Results Digest 302). The core competencies for highway safety professionals are intended to provide a broad framework for educating new safety professionals and training the existing workforce. They represent the fundamen- tal set of knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to effectively function as a professional in highway traffic safety. As such, they establish the foundation considered to be necessary for effective performance by all safety professionals, including those specializing in engineer- ing, analysis, public policy, road user behavior, injury prevention and control, and safety management. Under NCHRP Project 17-40, “Model Curriculum for Highway Safety Core Competen- cies,” Cambridge Systematics, Inc. transformed these core competencies into a curriculum that can be applied in various educational and training settings. This instructional tool will guide the delivery of effective training and educational programs for existing and future highway safety professionals. F O R E W O R D By Charles W. Niessner Staff Officer Transportation Research Board

C O N T E N T S 1 Chapter 1 Introduction 2 Chapter 2 Background 3 Chapter 3 Intended Audience 4 Chapter 4 Description of the Course Modules 7 Chapter 5 Summary 9 Appendix A CD-ROM Content 10 Appendix B Evaluation Sample

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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 667: Model Curriculum for Highway Safety Core Competencies presents course materials, including the instructor’s guide and student workbook, for a fundamental highway safety training course. The course is designed to address the core competencies highway safety practitioners should have or acquire. An accompanying CD-ROM includes a brochure and short Microsoft PowerPoint presentation for marketing the training course.

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