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The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety promotes research and education designed to prevent traffic crashes.
Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (AHAS) is an alliance of consumer, health and safety groups and insurance companies working together to make America's roads safer. AHAS encourages the adoption of federal and state laws, policies and programs that save lives and reduce injuries.
The American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association (ADTSEA) is the professional association that represents traffic safety educators throughout the United States and abroad. As a national advocate for quality traffic safety education, ADTSEA creates and publishes policies and guidelines for the discipline. ADTSEA conducts conferences, workshops and seminars and provides consultative services. The organization also develops educational materials.
The American Trucking Associations is the national trade association of the trucking industry, serving the nine million people and 322,000 companies involved in trucking.
Building Bridges Between Traffic Safety and Public Health seeks to promote collaboration between public health and traffic safety professionals to reduce the toll that motor vehicle-related injuries take upon our society. Building Bridges Between Traffic Safety and Public Health is funded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
From Crash Mission Statement: "The trucking industry in the United States is currently plagued by numerous safety problems. Oversize and overweight trucks, truck driver fatigue, substandard vehicle maintenance, and insufficient regulatory enforcement are all obstacles to safe trucking operations. The trucking industry consistently places productivity concerns over issues of safety. But we feel that the U.S. Congress, regulatory bodies, and trucking interests have a joint responsibility to truck drivers and to the motoring public to make truck safety a top priority."
The Designated Drivers Association, Inc. (DDA) is a voluntary organization of local residents who see the need to help individuals who have had "one too many" and who should not be driving.
The directory, a resource for managing fatigue in transportation, is compiled by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board.
The Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) is a non-profit public service organization that gathers, processes, and publishes data on the ways in which insurance losses vary among different kinds of vehicles. It is closely associated with and funded through the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, which is wholly supported by automobile insurers.
Established in 1978, the Institute for Transportation Research and Education (ITRE) is recognized by state and local government agencies as a leading resource in transportation research and technical assistance. As a unit of North Carolina State University, ITRE provides research assistance and project administration for the 16-campus UNC system and Duke University, as well as for state government agencies.
The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) is an international educational and scientific association of transportation and traffic engineers, transportation planners and other professionals who are responsible for meeting mobility and safety needs. The Institute facilitates the application of technology and scientific principles to research, planning, functional design, implementation, operation, policy development and management for any mode of transportation by promoting professional development of members; supporting and encouraging education; stimulating research; developing public awareness; exchanging professional information; and maintaining a central point of reference and action.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is an independent, non-profit, scientific and educational organization. It is dedicated to reducing the losses — deaths, injuries, and property damage — resulting from crashes on the nation's highways. The Institute is wholly supported by automobile insurers.
Join Together Online is a resource center and meeting place for communities working to reduce the harms associated with the use of illicit drugs, excessive alcohol and tobacco. Join Together Online is a project of Join Together and is funded by a grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to the Boston University School of Public Health.
MADD is a non-profit grass-roots organization with more than 600 chapters nationwide. MADD is not a crusade against alcohol consumption — MADD's mission is to stop drunk driving, support the victims of this violent crime, and prevent underage drinking.
To find your local MADD chapter, visit this page.
The National Commission Against Drunk Driving (NCADD) is a non-profit organization of private- and public-sector leaders dedicated to minimizing the human and economic losses resulting from motor vehicle crashes by working to make driving impaired a socially unacceptable act. It is the successor organization to the Presidential Commission on Drunk Driving appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1982 to develop the first report on this national problem.
National GRADD's mission is to prevent drunk-driving tragedies and to save lives among college communities by building and supporting a national network of collegiate safe ride programs.
The Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration provide excellent websites with traffic safety information.
"The mission of the National Safety Council is to educate and influence society to adopt safety, health, and environmental policies, practices and procedures that present and mitigate human suffering and economic losses arising from preventable causes." The NSC has added a traffic safety section, including information on the National Safety Belt Coalition.
The Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS) is a public/private partnership and non-profit organization working to help employers develop and implement comprehensive workplace highway safety programs. NETS is dedicated to reducing the human and economic costs associated with the primary cause of employee fatalities and lost work time — highway crashes.
One of the largest transportation libraries in the world, the Transportation Library at Northwestern has information on transportation (air, rail, highway, water, pipeline), law enforcement and police management, and environmental impact assessment.
Operation Lifesaver is a nationwide, non-profit public information program dedicated to reducing collisions, injuries and fatalities at highway-rail grade crossings and on railroad rights-of-way. Through a network of state coordinators in 49 states (excluding Hawaii), Operation Lifesaver sends nearly 2,000 volunteers into the field to deliver a highway-rail safety message.
RID (Remove Intoxicated Drivers) is the oldest national anti-DWI organization in the U.S.
The Transportation Research Board is a unit of the National Research Council, which serves the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. The Board's purposes are to stimulate research concerning the nature and performance of transportation systems, to disseminate the information produced by the research, and to encourage the application of appropriate research findings. The Board devotes attention to all factors pertinent to the understanding, design, and function of systems for the safe and efficient movement of people and goods.
The Transportation Safety Training Center (TSTC) was formed in 1971 as a joint venture between the Virginia Highway Safety Division (which was Virginia's highway safety office), and Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Community and Public Affairs. Today, the training center is a division of VCU's Center for Public Policy.
The NAGHSR Underage Drinking Prevention Project is a demonstration in five sites across the U.S. of a comprehensive, community-based approach to the issue of underage drinking. The project is being funded by NHTSA and is based on a model developed in the Washington, DC area. Technical assistance is being provided by Beer/Leonard Associates.
The University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center is dedicated to improving transportation safety, with a major emphasis on highway safety. The Center's fundamental mission is to conduct basic and applied research that increases knowledge and contributes to reducing death, injury, and the related societal costs. HSRC works to translate developed knowledge into practical interventions that can be applied at local, state, national and international levels.
UMTRI's mission is to provide leadership in interdisciplinary transportation-related research.
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