Research Projects

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: Active 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. [...]

A seat belt project applied across the social ecology in nine rural counties in Utah. A positive and hopeful approach to getting people to always wear their seat belt. [...]

The Center for Health and Safety culture will continue work on the Together for Life Project - a project to increase seatbelt use in rural Utah based on the Center's…

Sponsor: Washington Traffic Safety Commission Status: Active PI: Otto and Dively The Center for Health and Safety Culture will increase the knowledge and skills of Washington Traffic Safety Commission staff, Target…