Program Summary and Objectives
- Federal Agency: agency: department of transportation
office: national highway traffic safety administration (nhtsa)
- Program Website: http://www.nhtsa.whatsup/fedassist/index.html.
- Authorization: Highway Safety Act of 1966, as amended, 23 U.S.C. 401 et seq.
- Headquarters: Marlene Markison, Associate Administrator for Regional Operations and Program Delivery, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, S.E., Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: (202) 366-2121. Byron Dover, Transportation Specialist, Safety Technology Division, Office of Highway Safety, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: (202) 366-2161 (use the same number for FTS).
To provide a coordinated national highway safety program to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage.
Examples of Projects Funded
20.205, Highway Planning and Construction.
Program Accomplishments
The federally assisted State and Community Highway Safety programs have contributed to reducing and, subsequently, leveling out the sharp rise in traffic deaths in the period from 1966 to 2006. The fatality rate per hundred million passenger miles has been reduced from 5.5 in 1966 to 1.12 in 2006. This has been achieved in spite of more cars, more drivers, and more miles traveled on our Nation's highways.
Program Obligations
(as compiled by Subsidyscope)
Direct Expenditures Over Time
20.600 — State and Community Highway Safety/Safety
