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Project Underway: The objectives of this research are to conduct a comprehensive assessment of automated traffic law enforcement to assist in the public policy discussion of the future of traffic enforcement across the nation and develop a toolkit for state highway safety offices and other stakeholders.

Project Underway: The objective of this research is to provide public policy guidance for decision makers on the role of law enforcement in traffic safety enforcement.

Project Underway: The objectives of this research are to identify resources that utilize countermeasures proven most effective in raising awareness of the risk of motor vehicle crashes both on and off the job and provide actionable program tools.

Project Underway: The objectives of this research are to develop an improved understanding of the scope of the “last mile” problem in multimodal environments, explore what could be altered to change driver behavior and develop a toolkit of practical strategies.

Project Underway: The objectives of this research are to 1) understand the current state of practice and legal nuances that differ among jurisdictions and 2) develop a toolkit of practical strategies for SHSOs and other stakeholders to effectively communicate the goals of implementation and requirements for drivers to realize safety improvements.

Project Underway: This project will design and conduct research on the remaining fraction of Americans who do not use seat belts, with the goal of identifying practical, actionable countermeasures that can be implemented by state highway safety offices and their partners to motivate the last seat belt use holdouts to buckle up.

Project Underway: The objective of this research is to provide actionable data for states to optimize the supervised driving requirement to ensure it creates safer teen drivers and reduces the crash risk for this vulnerable age group.

Project Underway: The project will develop educational resources to support parents and caregivers in talking with teens about cannabis impaired driving and impaired driving laws.

Project  Underway: The objective of the research is to identify how enforcement activity has changed in recent years, and associate those changes with corresponding changes in crashes, injuries, and/or fatalities. Statistical comparisons can describe those factors that may be significant and guide future investments in enforcement and prioritization among policing agencies.

Project Underway: This research will examine, among other things, the association between confirmed incidences of distracting behaviors and inattention to the driving task by teen drivers with crash and near-crash involvement, in relation to their incidence during baseline events.