A Peer-to-Peer Traffic Safety Campaign Program

A Peer-to-Peer Traffic Safety Campaign Program
Author: Laura Stanley
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Total Pages: 192
Release: 2014
Genre: Automobile driver education
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The purpose of this project was to implement a peer-to-peer driver's safety program designed for high school students. This project builds upon an effective peer-to-peer outreach effort in Texas entitled Teens in the Driver Seat (TDS), the nation's first peer-to-peer driving safety program run by teens for teens. This program is based on the idea that teens will pay more attention to ideas that are presented by their peers than to those that come from adults. The peer-to-peer traffic safety campaign program empowers high school students to create methods of outreach to their peers. The implementation of this project followed that of the TDS high school program developed by the Texas Transportation Institute, and was assessed using a case-control experimental design across two urban and two rural Montana high schools that included approximately 2,700 students. Results did show some early success in improving teens awareness of the most dangerous risk factors for teen drivers. Moreover, the program was found to be effective in reaching even those teens in the schools that were not affiliated with the program. These results were more prominent in the rural group than the urban group. However, self-reported driving behaviors did not reflect this change (except for an increase in seatbelt usage). Urban teens reported being influenced most by their peers, closely followed by a parent, whereas rural teens reported being nearly equally influenced by their peers and a parent. Another key finding was that the effectiveness of certain types of peer-to-peer media, such as posters, differed by school size.

Traffic Safety Digest

Traffic Safety Digest
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Total Pages: 222
Release: 1999
Genre: Traffic safety
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Effectiveness of Highway Safety Public Education at Montana Motor Vehicle Registration Stations by Streaming a Variety of Safety Content

Effectiveness of Highway Safety Public Education at Montana Motor Vehicle Registration Stations by Streaming a Variety of Safety Content
Author: Natalie Villwock-Witte
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre: Communication
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State departments of transportation, including the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) focus on eliminating fatalities and serious injuries on our roadways. To accomplish this, MDT employed several strategies including an emphasis on improving traffic safety culture. Traffic safety culture strategies, including public awareness campaigns and traffic safety videos, are an important way to educate the public and possibly change their beliefs and influence their behaviors related to traffic safety. This project aimed to improve traffic safety culture through displaying traffic safety videos in waiting areas at motor vehicle division driver license stations and county treasurer offices. The project had three phases: 1) pre-deployment planning, 2) deployment, and 3) evaluation and support. The videos reached a broad demographic including those that are the focus of MDTs media campaigns. The location of the television significantly influenced whether or not the videos were viewed; the location behind staff entering data is preferred.