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The relevance of U.S. Strategic Highway Safety Plans in a future context

Hughes, Brett P ; Falkmer, Torbjorn ; Anund, Anna ; Black, Melissa H Chen, Feng

PloS one, 2019-10, Vol.14 (10), p.e0223646-e0223646 [Periódico revisado por pares]

United States: Public Library of Science

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The relevance of U.S. Strategic Highway Safety Plans in a future context
Autor: Hughes, Brett P ; Falkmer, Torbjorn ; Anund, Anna ; Black, Melissa H
Chen, Feng
Assuntos: 80 Road: Traffic safety and accidents ; Accidents, Traffic - prevention & control ; Accidents, Traffic - trends ; Automobiles - standards ; Automobiles - statistics & numerical data ; Biology and Life Sciences ; Engineering and Technology ; Evaluation (assessment) ; Fatalities ; Forecast ; Government Programs - methods ; Government Programs - standards ; Government Programs - trends ; Heat shock proteins ; highway ; Highway safety ; Improvement ; Industrialized nations ; Management ; Management techniques ; Medicine and Health Sciences ; Method ; Models, Theoretical ; Objectives ; Occupational accidents ; Occupational therapy ; Pathology ; Planning ; rating scale ; Road safety ; Roads ; Roads & highways ; Safety ; Safety management ; Safety Management - methods ; Safety Management - standards ; Safety Management - trends ; Social Sciences ; Social work ; Speech therapy ; System theory ; Systems theory ; Traffic accidents & safety ; Traffic safety ; United States ; USA
É parte de: PloS one, 2019-10, Vol.14 (10), p.e0223646-e0223646
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Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Descrição: While road safety in the United States (U.S.) has been continually improving since the 1970's, there are indications that these improvements are becoming increasingly difficult to sustain. Strategic Highway Safety Plans (SHSPs) are prepared by States to guide road safety management, however assessing the appropriateness of these plans remains a significant challenge, especially for the future in which they are to be applied. This study developed a new methodology to assess SHSPs from the perspectives of comprehensive system-based safety management and relevant future issues that can be applied before SHSPs are implemented, thereby avoiding long periods after implementation before assessing the appropriateness of the plans. A rating scale was developed and applied to assess 48 U.S. SHSPs against two key criteria: 1. a comprehensive framework for road safety, and 2. the anticipated changing, difficult and unpredictable nature of future transport and its context. The analysis concluded that current SHSPs have good national oversight with several strengths but were weak in some areas of content and did not address future challenges. Improvements are suggested to strengthen the plans' thoroughness by being consistent with systems theory and practice, as well as ways that these SHSPs can be more resilient to future circumstances. Implementing the recommendations in this paper provides the opportunity to adopt a system-based safety management practice that has been successful in other hazardous industries. Doing so is expected to most efficiently and effectively continue the recent improvements to road safety, which is likely to be increasingly difficult otherwise.
Editor: United States: Public Library of Science
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The relevance of U.S. Strategic Highway Safety Plans in a future context

Hughes, Brett P ; Falkmer, Torbjorn ; Anund, Anna ; Black, Melissa H Chen, Feng

United States: Public Library of Science

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