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Our Transportation Epidemic
| 题名： | Our Transportation Epidemic |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | Beverly Thompson Kuhn |
| 作者单位： | ITE International |
| 摘要： | Like most of you, I am painfully familiar with the tragedy of roadway deaths. My first exposure to this epidemic was in middle school when a childhood friend Id known since I was three was killed while riding his bicycle down a two-lane highway. I still think of him when I drive down that road. His mother was my math teacher a few years later, and I remember wondering how difficult it must have been for her to teach her son's friends. She is now in her late 80s and has lived nearly 50 years with her loss. As a mother of two, I cannot imagine what that would be like. Unfortunately, my list of personal connections to roadway tragedies is lengthy, including our next-door neighbor in high school (my sister was supposed to go with her to a party that evening); my husbands grandmother, mother, and aunt; a friends 16-year-old son; my sons 8-year-old classmate; and my own aunt. All tragic and nearly all preventable. Our roadways have seen their fair share of tragedy over many decades. An impressive decade-long reduction in annual traffic fatalities ended around 2014, and crash fatalities are once again on the rise. Even a global pandemic did not put the brakes on the rise in highway deaths. The highest priority for any of us as transportation professionals should be to facilitate change that can result in fewer crashes and more lives saved. We all have a part to play. The Safe System Approach is driven by six principles: humans make mistakes, humans are vulnerable, responsibility is shared, safety is proactive, redundancy is crucial, and death/serious injury is unacceptable. |
| 出版年： | 2022 |
| 期刊名称： | ITE journal |
| 卷： | 92 |
| 期： | 10 |
| 页码： | 4-4 |
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