USDOT updates national safety strategy

From Transport Topics. Additional safety strategies for the nation’s mobility networks were recently announced by the U.S. Department of Transportation as part of its comprehensive plan. A framework known as the “Safe System Approach,” was endorsed to create multiple layers of protection for the public via safer people, roads and vehicles, speed management, and improvements…

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From Transport Topics.

Additional safety strategies for the nation’s mobility networks were recently announced by the U.S. Department of Transportation as part of its comprehensive plan.

A framework known as the “Safe System Approach,” was endorsed to create multiple layers of protection for the public via safer people, roads and vehicles, speed management, and improvements to post-crash care. “The ‘Safe System Approach’ holistically builds and reinforces multiple layers of protection to both prevent crashes from happening in the first place, and minimize the harm caused to those involved when crashes do occur,” per background USDOT provided.

See the complete article from Transport Topics online.

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