题名: | Highway Safety: Federal and State Efforts to Address Rural Road Safety Challenges. Report to the Congress. |
关键词: | *Rural-roads; *Highway-safety; *Highway-transportation.;Federal-government; State-government; Motor-vehicle-accidents; Safety-engineerings; Highway-planning. |
摘要: | Traffic crashes are a major cause of death and injury in the United States. In 2002, there were 42,815 fatalities and over 2.9 million injuries on the nation's highways. GAO identified (1) the factors contributing to rural road fatalities, (2) federal and state efforts to improve safety on the nation's rural roads, and (3) the challenges that may hinder making improvements in rural road safety. |
报告类型: | 科技报告 |