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This document provides an overview of motorcycle safety today, along with a plan for the future. Its developers used a comprehensive approach to motorcycle safety, to address the needs of an ever-expanding motorcycling audience. The agenda is organized into sections discussing the four primary factors contributing to motorcycle crashes: human factors, social factors, motorcycle factors, and environmental factors. Current research is highlighted, along with recommendations for increasing motorcycle safety. Appendices provide information on state licensing, motorcycle equipment and insurance requirements, as well as motorcycle crash investigations, safety program assessments and common methodology. 8.5" x 11", full color, 118 pages.

http://www.nhtsa.gov/people/injury/pedbimot/motorcycle/00-NHT-212-motorcycle/index.html

This Action Guide is the result of a series of meetings with distinguished criminal justice professionals-law enforcement leaders, prosecutors, judges, and a representative from the defense bar-and NHTSA staff, who comprised an Aggressive Driving Implementation Team.  The intent of the implementation team was to create a dynamic and easy-to-update planning guide for the States.   The team recommended strategies that States can customize to create potent "best solutions".  This Action Guide delineates recommended action strategies and is the culmination of more than 18 months of committed efforts by the implementation team.   8.5" x 11", three color, 30 pages.

The National EMS Advisory Council presents this Summary Report with the hope that it promotes clear priorities, a strong vision for the future, and thoughtful and effective leadership on vital issues facing emergency medical services throughout the United States.

Some time ago, the Council members went through a systematic process to identify the topics we con sidered most important to pursue. We began with a list of more than 80 possibilities, from which emerged a short list of top priorities. The issues highlighted in this report represent fundamental concerns—some of the most challenging and important issues of our time. They have the potential to strengthen the care we provide to patients now and in the future, and significantly enhance the sustainability of EMS while enabling us
to offer even greater value to society.

http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nti/pdf/811705.pdf

This report presents the findings on distracted driving (including cell phone use) and drowsy driving.  The data comes from a pair of studies undertaken by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to better understand drivers' behaviors and attitudes regarding speeding, unsafe driving, distracted and drowsy driving.  This report, Volume 1: Findings National Highway Survey of Distracted and Drway Driving gives respondent's behaviors and attitudes on distracted and drowsy driving.  8.5" x 11", three color, 61 pages.

A field survey was conducted during spring and summer 2007 to measure travel speeds and prepare nationallyrepresentative speed estimates for all types of motor vehicles on freeways, arterial highways, and collector roads across the United States. Over 10 million vehicle speeds were measured at more than 700 sites included in the geographic cluster sample of 20 primary sampling units (PSUs). Each PSU was a city, county, or group of two or three counties representing combinations of regions of the United States, level of urbanization, and type of topography (flat, hilly, mountainous). Speeds were acquired on randomly drawn road segments on limited access highways, major and minor arterial roads, and collector roads.

 http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nti/pdf/811663.pdf