Center for Excellence in Rural Safety launches Web site
The Center for Excellence in Rural Safety (CERS) launched its Web site, www.ruralsafety.umn.edu, featuring detailed information about the organization and its activities.
The new Web site will play a key role in communicating the results of national rural transportation safety research projects to policymakers and the public. The Center’s research activities explore policy, behavior, and technology innovations through projects addressing safety-conscious planning, ITS and rural emergency response, integrated policy approaches, and related human factors, societal trends, and stakeholder needs analysis.
The Center for Excellence in Rural Safety, established by the 2005 federal transportation act, is a joint program between the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and the Center for Transportation Studies, and is sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration. Its mission is to facilitate citizen-centered research, training, and outreach activities related to rural transportation safety.