Welcome to the Center for Excellence in Rural Safety

The national Center for Excellence in Rural Safety, established by the 2005 federal transportation act, is a joint program between the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs and the Center for Transportation Studies, and sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, to facilitate research, training, and outreach activities related to rural transportation safety.

News

Webinars

• February 23, 2012 — Best Practices for Rural Traffic Safety Webinar Series – Corridor Safety and Target Zero Manger Programs

• Watch previous webinars from the Best Practices for Rural Traffic Safety Webinar Series

National Rural Road Safety Public Opinion Survey

• Read all about the survey

Headlines from the Center

• Profiles in Safety: Nationwide scan effort aims to reduce rural lane-departure crashes
• National Toward Zero Death efforts lay groundwork for decreased rural-road fatalities
• Innovative traffic safety program seeks to predict and prevent traffic crashes system wide
• Version 4 of SafeRoadMaps previewed at International GIS Day

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Rural Safety News is a quarterly e-mail newsletter from the Center for Excellence in Rural Safety.

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Rural Safety in the News

• Unbelted, at risk on outstate roads — Star Tribune, October 20, 2011

• Do Americans Oppose Controversial Evidence-Based Road Safety Policies? — Transportation Research Record, August 11, 2011

• Reducing Crash Fatalities on Rural Roadways — Transportation Research Record, August 11, 2011

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