Session Number
144
Session Title
Improving Traffic Safety in Your Community
Track Title
Safety
Event Description/Abstract
Traffic safety is important for a local community’s protection, health, and economic well-being. There are a variety of options available to communities that can help improve traffic safety and meet needs which, ideally, should be based on data that is specific to the area. We will discuss where a variety of data can be found and used by everyone from community members to engineers in order to improve traffic safety. Some of the options that will be discussed in this presentation are grant opportunities for law enforcement to conduct traffic safety specific enforcement and partnering with local businesses, high schools, hospitals, and nonprofits.
Indiana Criminal Justice Institute Traffic Safety Division
Traffic safety is important for a local community’s protection, health, and economic well-being. There are a variety of options available to communities that can help improve traffic safety and meet needs which, ideally, should be based on data that is specific to the area. We will discuss where a variety of data can be found and used by everyone from community members to engineers in order to improve traffic safety. Some of the options that will be discussed in this presentation are grant opportunities for law enforcement to conduct traffic safety specific enforcement and partnering with local businesses, high schools, hospitals, and nonprofits.