ATSSA’s Government Relations webpage is designed to help you create a safer roadway environment by impacting policy decisions at the federal, state and local level. Here you will find the latest information on our efforts to continue to educate federal, state and local officials on the importance of increasing the use of, and funding for, improved roadway safety devices and services.
Toward Zero Deaths Webinar August 25-26
A webinar of a stakeholder workshop to develop a national strategic highway safety plan is scheduled for August 25-26, 2010 at the Transportation Research Board headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Webinar participants can take part in all of the discussions and submit questions and comments via chat pods. Your input is needed to ensure consideration of a wide range of perspectives. You are welcome to share this information to your colleagues who may be interested in participating.
To download and view the TZD Summary, click here. To download and view a copy of the Agenda for this webinar, click here. To register, click here.
June 29, 2010 - “Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) Obligations and Fatalities on U.S. Highways: Final Report
Executive Summary - “Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) Obligations and Fatalities on U.S. Highways: Final Report
- Election 2009 State-Level Transportation Votes
- FHWA Q & A - Questions & Answers on Economic Recovery Issues Raised by State DOTs
- The Bill on the Hill
- SAFETEA-LU Archive Vault
- Federal Government Relations
- State Government Relations
- The ATSSA PAC
- Roadway Safety Advancement Fund
- ATSSA Policy Positions
- ATSSA's Toward Zero Deaths SAFETEA-LU Reauthorization Policy
*NEW* ATSSA Member highlighted in Pittsburg Business Times Article Discussing Impact of Stimulus Programs (July 16, 2010)
ATSSA’s Victims and Survivors Project
Each year, thousands of Americans are killed or injured on our nation’s roadways. In response to the high fatality rate on America’s roadways, ATSSA has committed itself to ensuring that these numbers begin to decrease, eventually reaching zero fatalities. ATSSA’s reauthorization policy – “Toward Zero Deaths” – outlines ATSSA’s plan in great detail.
In addition, ATSSA has developed a number of case studies involving actual families and people who have either lost a loved one due to a lack of roadway safety features or who have survived, thanks to an implemented safety feature.
ATSSA firmly believes that in generating these case studies and then presenting them to members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in Congress this year, ongoing improvement of our nation’s roadways will continue to evolve. It is believed that real faces and real stories will have a much more powerful effect than raw statistics.
Developing these case studies has been a challenge. ATSSA is contacting people at a time in their lives when they have just experienced a personal tragedy. Although it has been difficult, the people who have volunteered are those who wish to see change. They are willing to allow ATSSA to use their experiences as an example, hoping that in doing so, others will not have to suffer the same pain that they had to endure. ATSSA sincerely thanks all of those who have participated and for their patience and understanding in the matter, for they have put their fellow citizens before themselves. In doing so, they have become part of a movement to reach a fatality rate of zero on our nation’s roadways, and thanks to them, this goal may very well become a reality.
Victims - Case Studies
Charles "Chuck" Bailey
Judy Bird
Andrew Clark
Debra Griffin, Zach Leeson, Dusty Leeson
Richard "Rick" Moser
Richard "Rick" Moser
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