Highway Safety Research Center receives
| April 19, 2005 | |
| The UNC Highway Safety Research Center has received special recognition for its work on “Guidelines for Cost Benefit Analysis of Investments in Bicycle Facilities,” a research project offering government officials guidelines in this area.The Research Partnership Special Recognition Award, presented by the University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies, recognizes research projects within the center’s program that have significantly influenced transportation and rewards teams with diverse partnerships that have achieved those results.
The UNC center teamed up with the University of Minnesota, Planner’s Collaborative and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Active Living by Design program (based in UNC’s School of Public Health). The project was a part of the National Cooperative Highway Research Program in August 2003 and should be completed this August. The UNC Highway Safety Research Center conducts interdisciplinary research aimed at reducing deaths, injuries, and related societal costs of roadway crashes. Research examines motor vehicle, bicycle and pedestrian crashes, taking into account human, vehicular, roadway and environmental factors. For further information please contact Emily Smith by email at emily_smith@unc.edu |
