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ITE’s International Board of Direction identified
transportation safety as a priority topic for ITE. Intersection safety is included within this critical topic.
In the Year 2000,
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More than 2.8 million intersection-related crashes
occurred, representing 44 percent of all reported crashes.
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Approximately 8,500 fatalities (23 percent of the total
fatalities) and
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Almost 1 million injury crashes
(more than 48 percent of all injury crashes) occurred at or within an
intersection environment.
Given the magnitude of the intersection-related fatalities
and injuries, ITE in association with the Federal Highway Administration and
other transportation and safety organizations, have initiated the development of
action plans to foster both public awareness of the issue and the development of
technical products to enhance the skills of the practitioners who design and
operate intersections on a daily basis. Our
primary goal is to reduce fatalities, injuries and concomitant property damage
for intersection-related crashes through the integrated use of engineering,
education and enforcement actions.
The National Agenda for Intersection
Safety has been produced as a result of the National Intersection Safety
Workshop that was held in Milwaukee, WI on November 14-16, 2001.
To the right are critical products that have been produced relative to
intersection safety.
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MATERIALS
FROM MILWAUKEE, WI NOVEMBER 2001 INTERSECTION
SAFETY CONFERENCE
| Intersection Safety Workshop: Overview of Major
Themes, by Timothy R.
Neuman.
(presentation) |
| Engineering Safer
Intersection, by James
Bonneson.
(presentation) |
| Key Issues and Potential Action Items for a National Agenda to Improve Intersection
Safety, Keith K. Knapp, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
(paper)
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| Case Study: Failure to Stop at STOP
Sign: A Progressive Approach, by James Ellison, Pierce County Public Works & Utilities Department.
(paper)
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| Infrastructure Intersection Collision
Avoidance, by Robert A.
Ferlis.
(paper) |
| Automated Red Light Camera Program, National Workshop on Intersection
Safety, by Lt. Glenn Hansen.
(presentation) |
| Completing the Loop of Innovation:
Innovation, by Jeffrey A. Webber, P.E.,
FITE. (paper) |
| Completing the Loop of Innovation:
Innovation, by Jeffrey A. Webber, P.E.,
FITE. (presentation) |
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