It's not road safety; It's safe driving for road safety!

It's not road safety; it's safe driving for road safety!

Say what? I've been around traffic engineering for almost 4 decades. Amazingly, this profession, my profession, has been and continues to chase the wrong variables is safe roads is their goal.

Traffic engineers are spending huge sums of limited tax dollars and time, almost all their time, trying to make intersections and road segments safe. That's trying to make intersections and road segments safe.

The problem is, most of our future highway safety improvement can only come changing the behavior of drivers, since it is drivers that are the primary cause of nearly all traffic accidents.

Stated another way, if an intersection is improved with a traffic signal and accidents go down at that intersection but go up elsewhere because you haven't changed the behavior of drivers; you haven't achieved much.

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