The Center for Health and Safety Culture completed a research project sponsored by the Traffic Safety Culture Pooled Fund to understand factors associated with multiple risky driving behaviors and develop and test a brief intervention to reduce these multiple risky driving behaviors and improve overall driving safety.
Project summary: Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) are a range of disabilities that can occur when a baby is exposed to alcohol before birth. People with FASDs can have lifelong…
Project summary: Pedestrian fatalities are increasing and account for a growing percentage of all roadway fatalities. This highlights the urgent need for effective interventions. Transportation stakeholders are uniquely positioned to…
Status: Ongoing PI: Bridget Hanson Aggressive driving is a topic of interest to most states because it increases crash risk and there is evidence suggesting aggressive driving has been increasing,…
The Center for Health and Safety Culture will conduct a literature review to define aggressive driving, formulate a contextual model to explain its occurrence, and develop and implement a survey of road users to identify and differentiate clusters of driving behaviors that are perceived as “aggressive.” This research project is a part of the Traffic Safety Culture Pooled Fund Program. [...]
Status: Completed This project of the Traffic Safety Culture Transporation Pooled Fund (TSC-TPF) Program and the Center for Health and Safety Culture sought to better understand how beliefs are formed…
A cooperative effort of up to 19 state DOTs to increase awareness, understanding, and prioritization of traffic safety culture thereby transforming the culture in pursuit of the Toward Zero Deaths (TZD) vision. A range of projects supporting TZD strategies are funded by this pooled fund. [...]
The Center for Health and Safety Culture will seek to develop resources to assess and grow beliefs among stakeholders to support the deployment of effective strategies to improve pedestrian safety. The project will result in the creation of tools to increase beliefs supportive of pedestrian safety strategies. [...]
The Center for Health and Safety Culture will help MT DPHHS increase awareness of risk factors about the use of marijuana and other addictive substances (nicotine, alcohol, other illicit drugs) among universal, selective, and indicated populations including youth, young adults, and other high-risk populations. [...]
ParentingMontana.org strengthens social and emotional skills of parents and their children contributing to healthy, successful lives and reductions in risky behaviors. [...]