A panel of top Department of Transportation leaders updated a session at this year’s meeting of the Transportation Research Board, outlining some of the activities aimed at reducing the continuing challenges of rising highway fatalities.
“We are in a crisis, particularly that after decades of improvements, we’ve seen these changes more recently as the numbers are moving in the wrong direction,” Emily Schweninger, DOT’s senior policy adviser for transportation health and safety, said Jan. 6 at the annual event that brings together thousands of transportation professionals, researchers and academics. “It’s been made very clear by the secretary that the crisis is very urgent, that it’s unacceptable, but that we have an opportunity to make a change.”
