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https://doi.org/10.3141/2213-09

http://scholar.google.com...izer&publication_year=2011

This paper provides an overview of a study that investigated the impact of traffic safety training for two specific audiences in local agencies in Michigan: technical staff and elected and appointed officials. The impact of the training was assessed by measuring changes in attitudes and behavior with regard to traffic safety after both groups attended specialized training. The study was limited to local agencies in Michigan as a way to reduce the number of variables that could influence the outcome. Learning assessments, workshop evaluations, follow-up surveys, and innovative ethnographic interview techniques were used to verify learning and to detect changes in attitude and behavior. The study revealed significant positive attitudinal and behavior changes in both technical staff and elected and appointed officials that were attributed to what they learned in the training. The study indicates that there are significant benefits to traffic safety on local roads when local agency staff and elected and appointed officials are appropriately trained.

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11-2446

English

pp 63-71

2011

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

9780309167277

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Attitudes; Behavior; Evaluation and assessment; Learning; Local government agencies; Personnel; Surveys; Traffic safety; Training

Elected officials; Local roads

Michigan

Education and Training; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I10: Economics and Administration

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Feb 17 2011 6:10PM

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