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This study evaluated NHTSAs 2006 National (CIOT)mobilization. This intense, short-duration, seat belt publicity and enforcement mobilization cost approximately $27 million for paid advertising that delivered an enforcement based message urging people to wear a seat belt or risk getting a citation.  Between May 22 and June 4, 2006, law enforcement agencies issued more than 697,000 seat belt citations. Public awareness of the media message was high.  Seat belt use increased in 37 of 50 States and Territories.  The number of States reporting increases in statewide seat belt use and the amount of increase has been shrinking each succeeding year since national mobilizations began in 2002.  In 2006, paid publicity decreased from levels between 2002 through 2005. The number of seat belt citations issued by law enforcement agencies also decreased in 2006.  The National Occupant Protection Usage Survey indicated the nationwide seat belt use rate did not improve between 2005 and 2006.  This report also includes results from other NHTSA demonstration programs that are searching for productive modifications to the typical CIOT process.

This project examined individuals existing values and how they can be utlized to deter drinking and driving behavior.  Data was collected through interviews and focus groups with 18-29 year-old drivers.  The objective was to determine what is important to individuals in this age group, and use that information to develop anti-DWI countermeasures.  Study participants were found to have well developed attitudes about driving while impaired; that it was dangerous and wrong.  However, most admitted to doing so on occasion.  181 pages.

This is Volume I of a three-volume report. It contains the results of a study that examined the speeding behavior of drivers in their own vehicles over the course of three to four weeks of naturalistic driving in urban (Seattle, Washington) and rural (College Station, Texas) settings. The purpose of this research was to (1) identify the reasons why drivers speed, (2) model the relative roles of situational, demographic, and personality factors in predicting travel speeds, (3) classify speeders, and (4) identify interventions, countermeasures, and strategies for reducing speeding behaviors.

This study examined the association of the impairing effects of multiple medication use, drug/drug interactions, and drug/disease interactions on motor vehicle crashes in individuals age 50 years and older. This study examined two databases: (1) the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) survey database, and (2) the PharMetrics database to determine the relative frequency of various combinations of medications used by those who have experienced motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) and those who have not. This study suggest that both the kind and number of medication exposures, and the characteristics of diseases/disorders present among study subjects are associated with an increase in risk for MVCs among older adults.