2009 GHSA Annual Meeting: Presentations

2009 Annual Meeting
Toward Zero Deaths: Every Life Counts

Savannah, Ga., August 30 - September 2

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GHSA has requested presentations from all speakers. All presentations received have been posted. Unless indicated, all files are in PDF format.

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GHSA Business Meeting

Betty Mercer, President, Mercer Consulting Group LLC
Management Review (MR) Project Summary (Members Only)
- Summary Report: Findings, Best Practices and Commendations
- PowerPoint Presentation [102 KB, 31 pgs.]

Opening General Session (Monday)

Honorable Debbie Hersman, Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Washington, D.C.
- Remarks
James Vondale, Director, Automotive Safety Office, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Mich.
- Presentation [89 KB, 14 pgs.]

Workshop 1
Data Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety (DDACTS)

Michael Geraci, Director, Office of Safety Programs, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Washington, D.C.
- Presentation [1.3 MB, 17 pgs.]
Captain Howard Hall, Commanding Officer, Operational Services Section, Baltimore County Police Department, Baltimore, Md.
- Presentation [3.4 MB, 24 pgs.]

Workshop 2
Traffic Safety Fundamentals: Connecting the Dots

Susan Herbel, Principal, Cambridge Systematics, Inc., Heathrow, Fla.
Paul Jovanis, Director, Transportation Operations Program, Larson Transportation Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa.
- Presentation [79 KB, 25 pgs.]
Randall Smith, Traffic Safety Administrator, Florida Department of Transportation, Tallahassee, Fla.
Compiled Presentation and Quiz [1 MB, 39 pgs.]

Workshop 3
Teen Drivers: Crashes Waiting to Happen

Pam Fischer, Governor’s Representative and Director, New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety, Trenton, N.J.
- Presentation [73 KB, 16 pgs.]
Renee Slick, President/CEO, RRG Consulting, Inc., Manhattan, Kan.
- Presentation [484 KB, 26 pgs.]
Allen Robinson, Chief Executive Officer, American Driver and Traffic Safety Education AssocIation (ADTSEA), Indiana, Pa.
- Presentation [193 KB, 24 pgs.]

Workshop 4
Bolstering Occupant Protection

Dr. Joseph Thompson, Arkansas Surgeon General and Director, Arkansas Center for Health Improvement (ACHI), Little Rock, Ark.
- Presentation [3 MB, 34 pgs.]
Lawrence Decina, Senior Associate, TransAnalytics, Kulpsville, Pa.
- Presentation [1.34 KB, 31 pgs.]
Lowell Porter, Governor’s Representative and Director, Washington Traffic Safety Commission, Olympia, Wash.
- Presentation [607 KB, 17 pgs.]

Workshop 5
New and Cool Highway Safety Technologies

James Vondale, Director, Automotive Safety Office, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Mich.
- Presentation [425 KB, 13 pgs.]
Jim Sayer, Associate Research Scientist, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), Ann Arbor, Mich.
- Presentation [702 KB, 18 pgs.]

Workshop 6
Pedestrian Safety: Influencing Behavior Through Engineering Safety

Michael Weiner, Traffic Engineering Director, City of Savannah, Savannah, Ga.
- Presentation [8.8 MB, 20 pgs.] NOTE: This is a very large file.

General Session (Tuesday)

Dr. Grant Baldwin, Director, Unintentional Injury Division, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Ga.
- Presentation [2.4 MB, 32 pgs.]
Peter Kissinger, President and CEO, AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, Washington, D.C.
- Presentation [1.4 MB, 28 pgs.]
- Handout [229 KB, 2 pgs.]
Louis Tuthill, Social Science Analyst, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.
- Presentation [146 KB, 18 pgs.]

Workshop 7
Multicultural Outreach Done Right

Craig Borne, External Civil Rights Manager, NHTSA, Washington, D.C.
- Presentation [1.4 MB, 43 pgs.]
- Assessment Tool [78 KB, 18 pgs.]

Workshop 8
Traffic Records Performance Measures Listening Session

Jim Hedlund, Principal, Highway Safety North, Ithaca, N.Y.
- Presentation [50 KB, 19 pgs.]

Workshop 9
Rural Highways Don’t Have to be Dieways

Bob Thompson, Program Evaluator, Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau, Iowa Department of Safety, Des Moines, Iowa
- Presentation [50 KB, 20 pgs.]
Lee Munnich, Director, Center for Excellence in Rural Safety, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.
- Presentation [1 MB, 31 pgs.]
John Miller, Safety Engineer, Missouri Department of Transportation, Jefferson City, Mo.
- Presentation [1.9 MB, 29 pgs.]

Workshop 10
Where Did All My Reporters Go? Getting Media Coverage in an Age of Cutbacks

Kathryn L. Henry, Marketing Specialist, Office of Communications and Consumer Information, NHTSA, Washington, D.C.
- Presentation [1.2 MB, 14 pgs.]
Janet Dewey-Kollen, Contractor, New Mexico Traffic Safety Bureau, Santa Fe, N.M.
- Presentation [986 KB, 32 pgs.]
- Women Drive Drunk, Too Video Clip

Workshop 11
Promising Strategies Targeting DWI

Clay Abbott, DWI Resource Prosecutor, Texas District and County Attorneys Association, Austin, Texas
- Presentation [110 KB, 6 pgs.]
Rod MacDonald, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Traffic Safety Management and Research (ITSMR) of the State University of New York at Albany, Albany, N.Y.
- Presentation [538 KB, 24 pgs.]
Stephen Talpins, Chief Executive Officer, National Partnership on Alcohol Misuse and Crime, Alexandria, Va.
- Presentation [244 KB, 21 pgs.]

Workshop 12
Getting Aggressive with Motorcycle Safety

Marianne Trussell, Chief Safety Officer, Florida Department of Transportation, Tallahassee, Fla.
- Presentation [917 KB, 15 pgs.]
Lorrie Laing, Associate, Cambridge Systematics, Inc., Blacklick, Ohio
- Presentation [764 KB, 29 pgs.]
Brett Robinson, Vice President, Highway Safety Services, LLC, Indiana, Pa.
- Presentation [201 KB, 19 pgs.]

Workshop 13
A Culture of Speeding: The Great American Pastime

Brian Tefft, Senior Research Associate, AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, Washington, D.C.
- Presentation [194 KB, 18 pgs.]
Kathryn L. Henry, Marketing Specialist, Office of Communications and Consumer Information, NHTSA, Washington, D.C.
- Presentation [1.7 MB, 24 pgs.]

Workshop 14
Blending Engineering and Behavior Strategies to Reduce Traffic Deaths

Tamiko Burnell, Transportation Specialist, Office of Safety, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Washington, D.C.
- Presentation [272 KB, 20 pgs.]
David Beach, Highway Safety Office Director, Utah Department of Public Safety, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Presentation [2.2 MB, 11 pgs.]
Lowell Porter, Governor’s Representative and Director, Washington Traffic Safety Commission, Olympia, Wash.
- Presentation [536 KB, 20 pgs.]

Workshop 15
What’s Driving Distracted Driving?

Anne McCartt, Senior Vice President for Research, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Va.
- Presentation [2.2 MB, 47 pgs.]
John Ulczycki, Group Vice President – Research, Communications & Advocacy, National Safety Council, Itasca, Ill.
- Presentation [218 KB, 24 pgs.]
Melissa Savage, Program Director, Energy, Environment and Transportation, National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), Denver, Colo.
- Presentation [373 KB, 15 pgs.]

Reauthorization General Session

Joe Toole, Associate Administrator for Safety, FHWA, Washington, D.C.
- Presentation [231 KB, 15 pgs.]