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Planning & Evaluation Group

Description

In keeping with the Center's legislative mandate to study complex policy issues, the Planning and Evaluation Group conducts a wide range of analyses of traffic safety-related issues with an eye to improving laws, regulations, and practices. Some of these analyses are self-initiated; others are done at the request of state and federal policy makers. During its first year of operation, the Planning and Evaluation Group studied topics that included red light running countermeasures, impediments to blood alcohol concentration testing and reporting in fatal crashes in Texas, and speed limits on Houston-area freeways.

Expertise

Researchers in the Planning and Evaluation Group have expertise in the following areas:

  • impaired driving (detection and prevention),
  • law enforcement-related traffic safety issues,
  • road rage,
  • driver drowsiness and distraction,
  • marketing of research and development,
  • highway safety, and
  • design and testing of bridge guardrails.

Cooperative Relationships/Sponsors

The Planning and Evaluation Group maintain cooperative relationships with the following sponsors:

  • Federal Highway Administration,
  • National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
  • National Centers for Disease Control,
  • National Academy of Sciences,
  • AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety,
  • Texas Department of Transportation,
  • Texas Department of Public Safety,
  • Sam Houston State University,
  • Southwest University Transportation Center,
  • University of North Carolina,
  • Northport Associates,
  • SAFE, Inc,
  • Houston-Galveston Area Council, and
  • Harris County Transit Authority.

For More Information

Melissa Walden
Center for Transportation Safety
Texas Transportation Institute
Texas A&M University System
3135 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3135
ph. (979) 862-6707
mwalden@tamu.edu

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