This document is now available on the NHTSA Web page, or in summary form in presentation format.

The National Bicycle Safety Network (NBSN) -- a public-private coalition of federal and state agencies, professional and non-profit safety groups, and bicycling advocacy organizations dedicated to improving bicycle safety and increasing bicycle use -- has volunteered to facilitate implementation activities for selected portions of the National Strategies for Advancing Bicycle Safety. You, or your organization, can participate by taking the lead on implementing one of the strategies, helping with funding or other resources, or joining our efforts toward achieving these critical public safety goals. If you would like to learn more about the progress of the National Strategies for Advancing Bicycle Safety or volunteer your time, please contact us through the NBSN web site.

In a nation where traffic is increasing and roadways are becoming more congested, we must, to the best of our collective ability, ensure the safety of all roadway users.

National Bicycle Safety Conference

The conference format was crafted to focus discussion on five practical issues that, once accomplished, will substantially advance the safety of bicyclists. These topics were:

• sharing the road with motorists,

• enhancing bicycle safety education,

• increasing bicycle helmet use,

• enhancing the role of the legal system in promoting bicycle safety, and

• using bicycle facilities and community planning for bicycle safety

Topic experts in each of these areas were commissioned to write "white papers" in advance of the conference and present those papers at the onset of the conference. Each paper addressed key issues in that area, described why the topic is important to bicycle safety, and proposed potential solutions to enhance safety. These white papers were provided to conference participants in advance of the conference and will be published in a separate document summarizing the conference proceedings.

The white papers set the tone for conference discussions, which centered first on outlining key strategies for advancing each area and then detailing critical actions needed to implement those strategies. The National Strategies for Advancing Bicycle Safety (termed "bicycle safety agenda" or "agenda" in this document) is the product of the conference.

Focus of the National Strategies for Advancing Bicycle Safety

The document, National Strategies for Advancing Bicycle Safety, does not stand alone. Rather, it should be viewed as a "next steps" guide to accompany other documents, including:

• Department of Transportation (DOT) documents such as the DOT Strategic Plan for 2000-2005 which calls for a 10 percent reduction in bicyclist injuries and fatalities by the year 2005 (using 1999 as the baseline); the National Bicycling and Walking Study developed by the Department of Transportation in 1994 which, in addition, calls for increasing the percentage of total bicycle and pedestrian trips in the United States from 7.9% to 15.8% of all travel trips; and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Strategic Plan which identified approaches such as public information, legislation, enforcement, engineering, and outreach to improve the safety of bicyclists; and

• Healthy People 2010, developed by the Department of Health and Human Services, which urges helmet use by bicyclists, and encourages all states to pass mandatory bicycle helmet use laws.

This document supplements these other plans by providing specific strategies for achieving the bicycle-related goals, as well as specific action steps that are needed to accomplish those strategies.

The strategies outlined in this document are considered to be those that can be initiated and largely completed within a three-to-five-year time frame. In addition, these strategies are expected to build strong local support and capacity for efforts to improve safe bicycling. As these approaches are implemented or completed, it is expected that other ideas will take their place in the National Strategies for Advancing Bicycle Safety.

Implementation

Goal #1 Motorists Will Share the Road

• Create a coordinated "Share the Road" public education campaign that can be adapted at the state and local levels.

• Amend the motor vehicle code to give precedence to bicyclists in the absence of overriding traffic rules.

• Include components on safe bicycling and sharing the road in driver education programs.

Goal #2: Bicyclists Will Ride Safely

• Create a national "Ride Safely" marketing campaign targeting bicycle riders.

• Encourage statewide bicycle safety conferences to promote the National Strategies for Advancing Bicycle Safety.

• Expand school-based and community-based programs that teach bicycle safety to children and adult bicyclists.

• Educate community professionals on effective ways to promote safe bicycling.

• Motivate decision makers at all levels to adopt policies that promote safe bicycling.

Goal #3 Bicyclists Will Wear Helmets

• Create a national bicycle helmet safety campaign.

• Create tools to promote and increase bicycle helmet use that can be adapted for use at the state and local levels.

• Assist states and communities that decide to address bicycle helmet use through state and local laws and enforcement.

Goal #4 The Legal System Will Support Safe Bicycling

• Improve the collection and quality of data concerning bicycle crash incidents, including both traffic and non-traffic sites.

• Create tools that help law enforcement officers enforce bicycle-safety traffic laws aimed at bicyclists and motorists.

• Promote the most promising enforcement efforts at those local sites where they are most likely to be effective.

• Encourage the court system to follow through on bicycle safety enforcement by imposing meaningful penalties for both motorist and bicyclist violations.

Goal #5 Roads and Paths Will Safely Accommodate Bicyclists

• Document and evaluate the safety and effectiveness of facility design options.

• Improve 100,000 miles of existing streets and roadways to accommodate bicycle travel.

• Train professionals responsible for the planning, design, and operation of the transportation system to better consider and accommodate bicycle travel.

Goal #1
MOTORISTS WILL SHARE THE ROAD

Same Road, Same Rights, Same Rules

Strategy #1 Create a coordinated "Share the Road" public education campaign that can be adapted at the state and local levels.

Action Steps

1. Evaluate the feasibility and potential effectiveness of a campaign emphasizing the importance of sharing the road.

2. Survey successful state and local level programs to guide campaign development.

3. Identify the themes, content, and target audiences for the campaign.

4. Create tools that incorporate multiple forms of media and compelling stories to communicate "Share the Road" messages.

5. Design specific outreach activities to promote bicycle safety for motorists and bicyclists.

6. Encourage local organizations and bicycle advocacy groups to sponsor the campaign in their community.

7. Evaluate the effectiveness of the campaign.

Strategy #2 Amend the motor vehicle code to give precedence to bicyclists in the absence of overriding traffic rules.

Action Steps

1. Research morbidity, mortality, and cost issues related to existing laws to further policy development.

2. Work with the National Committee on Uniform Traffic Laws and Ordinances to determine needed policy changes.

3. Draft model language for inclusion in the Uniform Vehicle Code.

4. Develop a constituency of bicyclists and motorists to advocate for those code changes needed.

5. Facilitate passage of code-changing bills within state legislatures.

Strategy #3 Include components on "safe bicycling" and "sharing the road" in driver education programs.

Action Steps

1. Survey current programs to determine if and how bicycle safety is incorporated into driver education for beginning drivers and license renewal.

2. Draft model text, graphics, and/or audio-visual material about bicycles, bicyclists, and sharing the road to be included in the driver's license training classes and materials.

3. Draft questions about bicycles, bicyclists, and sharing the road that can be adapted for driver's license testing systems.

4. Encourage states and driver education providers to integrate model program components into existing driver's education programs including, but not limited to, novice driver training, license renewal, taxi cab driver training, professional driver training, bus driver training, commercial driver licensing, traffic (violations) schools, and the 55 Alive Program (offered by the American Association of Retired Persons).

Goal #2 BICYCLISTS WILL RIDE SAFELY

Would you ever think of driving a car without knowing what to do at a red light?

Strategy #1 Create a national "Ride Safely" marketing campaign targeted toward bicycle riders.

Action Steps

1. Evaluate the feasibility and potential effectiveness of the campaign.

2. Identify the themes, content, and target audiences for the campaign.

3. Determine channels of delivery to reach diverse populations (i.e., age, ethnic, gender, lifestyle, disabled, rural).

4. Create messages that provide accurate, culturally acceptable, and developmentally appropriate bicycle safety messages through multimedia sources.

5. Develop state press kits and model products that advocate safe bicycling.

6. Encourage bicycle retailers, hospitals, and corporations to sponsor the program and publicize bicycle rules of the road.

7. Evaluate the effectiveness of the campaign.

Strategy #2 Encourage statewide bicycle safety conferences to promote the National Strategies for Advancing Bicycle Safety.

Action Steps

1. Recruit organizations to sponsor statewide conferences focused on implementation of the National Strategies for Advancing Bicycle Safety.

2. Bring individuals and organizations together to develop state and local strategies for bicycle safety.

3. Assist interested states in conference planning to encourage compatibility with the National Strategies for Advancing Bicycle Safety.

4. Create mechanisms that publicize and allow for coordination of state conferences and bicycle safety efforts.

Strategy #3 Expand school-based and community-based programs that teach bicycle safety to children and adult bicyclists.

Action Steps

1. Create a national clearinghouse to compile bicycle safety education resources (e.g., parks and recreation programs, rodeos, after-school programs, health and safety fairs, faith-based programs, workplace safety programs).

2. Develop needed additional educational materials (e.g., model curricula, books, video games, service-learning activities) to address bicycle safety education.

3. Disseminate programs to teachers and community-based educators and encourage them to incorporate bicycle safety content into their classes.

4. Require bicycle and traffic safety in educational and other relevant settings such as English as a Second Language (ESL) classes, HEAD Start programs, and after-school programs.

Strategy #4 Educate community professionals on effective ways to promote safe bicycling.

Action Steps

1. Convene a committee to develop and encourage educational programs targeted at local government officials, health professionals, criminal justice professionals (i.e., law enforcement, judges), traffic engineers, and others who can influence safe bicycling.

2. Identify and evaluate existing bicycle safety materials or other community- based programs to determine if they can be adapted for these audiences.

3. Disseminate successful programs in order to foster replication.

4. Identify resources and a process for funding pilot projects focused on community leaders.

Strategy #5 Motivate decision-makers at all levels to adopt policies that promote safe bicycling.

Action Steps

1. Determine and publicize the economic, health, and community benefits of bicycle safety.

2. Research the content and effectiveness of existing policies and the desired outcomes from new policies or policy changes.

3. Draft model bicycle safety policies that can be adapted by decision makers in government, education, medicine, law enforcement, public health, etc.

4. Create informational materials and an approach to engage policy makers and stakeholders in endorsing safe bicycling policies.

Goal #3 BICYCLISTS WILL WEAR HELMETS

If your chances of winning the lottery were 88%, wouldn't you play?

Strategy #1 Create a national bicycle helmet safety campaign.

Action Steps

1. Evaluate the feasibility and potential effectiveness of such a campaign.

2. Hire a full-time campaign coordinator and recruit staff support from participating agencies.

3. Recruit a media firm to create a campaign.

4. Develop the themes, content, and target audiences for the campaign and identify channels of delivery.

5. Encourage corporations and bicycle advocacy groups to sponsor the campaign. 6. Monitor campaign effectiveness.

Strategy #2 Create tools to promote and increase bicycle helmet use that can be adapted for use at the state and local levels.

Action Steps

1. Compile and catalog community-based bicycle helmet safety materials, resources, organizations, and programs.

2. Review and assess materials to ensure that the messages are accurate, culturally- sensitive, and developmentally-appropriate.

3. Develop additional materials (e.g., model curricula, books, video games) as needed to address bicycle helmet education.

4. Disseminate materials to school-based and community-based educators (via video, the Internet, resource center, etc.) and encourage them to incorporate bicycle helmet messages into their programs.

5. Monitor implementation of tools and assess the effectiveness of use at the local level.

Strategy #3 Assist states and communities that decide to address bicycle helmet use through state and local laws and enforcement.

Note: Conference participants were not able to arrive at consensus on the inclusion of a strategy targeted at promoting mandatory helmet laws for bicyclists. Proponents argued that the best way to promote helmet use, and thereby reduce mortality and serious injury, is to require bicyclists to wear helmets. Opponents argued that requiring helmet use interferes with personal freedom, exaggerates the dangers of cycling, and reduces ridership. To promote the broadest possible participation in the National Strategies for Advancing Bicycle Safety, it was decided that advocacy for mandatory helmet laws would not be included in this document. However, those states and communities that are looking for assistance in this area will be supported by individuals and organizations who agree that helmet use laws are beneficial. Organizations with an interest in this area will continue to pursue efforts to secure passage of these laws.

Action Steps

1. Collect existing laws utilized by state and local governments.

2. Draft model laws that can be made available, as requested, for state and local government officials and advocates.

3. Encourage law enforcement agencies to enforce existing bicycle helmet laws.

4. Monitor the effectiveness of helmet laws for changing behavior and reducing injury.

GOAL #4
THE LEGAL SYSTEM WILL SUPPORT SAFE BICYCLING

Shouldn't the police ticket any road user - bicyclist or driver - who breaks the law?

Strategy #1 Improve the collection and quality of data concerning bicycle crash incidents, including both traffic and non-traffic sites.

Action Steps

1. Evaluate the accuracy of currently collected law enforcement and injury data with respect to completeness and recording of elements of the causal chain that led to the crash.

2. Evaluate the federal and state requirements that pertain to how information about bicycle involvement in crashes is recorded on crash report forms.

3. Assess the usefulness of existing data reporting systems in tracking incidents and injuries involving bicycles.

4. Employ community needs assessment and other tools to make recommendations for improvements in data collection procedures.

5. Create model forms, procedures, and tools to implement recommendations.

6. Disseminate findings and encourage jurisdictions to improve their data collection procedures and practices.

Strategy #2 Create tools that help law enforcement officers enforce bicycle-safety traffic laws aimed at bicyclists and motorists.

Action Steps

1. Draft model crash investigation protocols, daily roll call presentations, and bicycle safety enforcement tools that can be adapted by law enforcement departments.

2. Disseminate models to local police departments and sheriffs' departments and encourage them to incorporate bicycle safety content into standard procedures.

3. Publicize effective enforcement practices and models in law enforcement magazines and trade journals.

4. Identify internal change agents (including law enforcement on bicycles) and support their efforts to influence other officers.

5. Conduct an advocacy campaign for law enforcement executives.

Strategy #3 Promote the most promising enforcement efforts at those local sites where they are likely to be effective.

Action Steps

1. Identify and evaluate new and existing efforts to improve bicycle safety enforcement, such as targeting intersections with high incidents of bicycle-motor vehicle conflicts and high-risk bicycle-endangering behaviors (including speeding).

2. Disseminate effective practices to law enforcement agencies and professional organizations.

3. Encourage local law enforcement agencies to implement successful bicycle safety enforcement practices.

4. Promote increased, accurate media coverage of bicycle crashes.

5. Build local coalitions of safe bicycling advocates and law enforcement agencies to promote strategic law enforcement.

Strategy #4 Encourage the court system to follow through on bicycle safety enforcement by imposing meaningful penalties for both motorist and bicyclist violations.

Action Steps

1. Investigate how courts are currently adjudicating bicycle-related incidents.

2. Evaluate the availability and adequacy of bicycle-related data and reporting systems used by courts.

3. Disseminate effective practices to court professionals and organizations.

4. Establish a "bicycle court" model that addresses infractions involving bicyclists.

Goal #5 ROADS AND PATHS WILL SAFELY ACCOMMODATE BICYCLISTS

If it is safer, will they use it?

Strategy #1 Document and evaluate the safety and effectiveness of facility design options.

Action Steps

1. Compile data on the design features and implementation of bicycle-safe facilities.

2. Evaluate the use and safety (including exposure) of existing facilities and disseminate findings to transportation professionals and bicycle advocates.

3. Encourage increased allocation of research dollars for bicycle safety research at the national level.

4. Promote implementation and evaluation of promising new bicycle facility designs.

Strategy #2 Improve 100,000 miles of roadways that serve everyday travel by providing striped bicycle lanes and other safe bicycling facilities.

Action Steps

1. Identify and track existing miles of bicycle lanes as well as plans for striping of additional miles.

2. Involve citizens, bicycle safety organizations, and advocates in community needs assessment and local planning efforts.

3. Establish bicycle lane mileage goals for states and metropolitan planning organizations.

4. Develop and issue implementation guidelines for use by transportation professionals. 5. Provide incentives to allocate funds for striping.

6. Disseminate information to help ensure that routine roadway design and operation safely accommodate bicyclists even where no special facilities are present.

Strategy #3 Train professionals responsible for the planning, design, and operation of the transportation system to better accommodate bicycle travel.

Action Steps

1. Offer the pedestrian/bicycle graduate course, developed by the Federal Highway Administration, to at least one university in every state.

2. Deliver a continuing education course on accommodating bicycle travel to design professionals in every state.

3. Develop a new bicycle facilities course, offered by the Federal Highway Administration's National Highway Institute.

4. Encourage colleges and universities to incorporate bicycle transportation in the undergraduate civil engineering curriculum.

5. Disseminate information to help ensure that routine roadway design and operation safely accommodate bicyclists.

Barbara Alberson, MPH
Chief, State and Local Injury Control Section
California Department of Health Services

Heather Anderson
Project Manager
Washington Area Bicycle Association

Marietta Y. Pearson Bowen, MS
Office of Traffic Injury Control Programs
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Stephanie D. Bryn, MPH
Injury and Violence Prevention Programs
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
Health Resources and Services Administration

Andy Clarke
Executive Director
Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals

Janet Coleman, MS
Office of Highway Safety Infrastructure
Federal Highway Administration

Marquita Dudley
Manager, Club Programs
American Automobile Association

John C. Fegan, MA
Bicycle and Pedestrian Program Manager
Federal Highway Administration

Michael J. Klasmeier
Program Director
League of American Bicyclists

Amy L. Matush, MS
Office of Traffic Injury Control Programs
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Angela D. Mickalide, PhD
Program Director
National SAFE KIDS Campaign

Fred Rivara, MD, MPH
Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center

Richard A. Schieber, MD, MPH
Childhood Injury Prevention
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Ellen R. Schmidt, MS
Assistant Director, Children's Safety Network
Education Development Center

Randy Swart
Director
Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute

Bill Tremblay
Brain Injury Association, Inc.

Elaine A. Tyrrell, MS
Program and Management Analyst
U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission

Maria E. Vegega, PhD
Chief, Safety Countermeasures Division
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Bill Wilkinson
Executive Director
National Center for Bicycling and Walking

Barbara Alberson, MPH - Health Education
State and Local Injury Control Section
California Department of Health Services

John S. Allen - Bicycle Advocacy
Past President, Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition

Marilena Amoni, MS - Traffic Safety Policy
Office of Traffic Injury Control Programs
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Heather Anderson - Bicycle Advocacy
Washington Area Bicycle Association

Lisa M. Aultman-Hall, PhD - Traffic Engineering Research
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Kentucky

Abraham B. Bergman, MD - Pediatrics, Injury Prevention
Harborview Medical Center

Richard D. Blomberg - Human Factors Research
Dunlap and Associates, Inc.

Leverson S. Boodlal, MS - Traffic Engineering
Office of Safety
Federal Highway Administration

Marietta Y. Pearson Bowen, MS - Injury Prevention, Bicycle Safety
Office of Traffic Injury Control Programs
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Susan M. Boyle - Bicycle and Pedestrian Advocacy
Transportation Alternatives

Christine M. Branche, PhD - Epidemiology Research
Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention
National Center for Injury Prevention Control
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Ruth A. Brenner, MD, MPH - Epidemiology Research
Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, & Prevention Research
National Institute of Child Health & Human Development

Anita L. Brentley, Med - Education, Community Outreach
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Tamara A. Broyhill, MS - Writer/Editor
Office of Highway Safety Infrastructure
Federal Highway Administration

Stephanie D. Bryn, MPH - Education, Injury Prevention
Injury and Violence Prevention Programs
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
Health Resources and Services Administration

Gabriel J. Cano - Community Outreach, Traffic Safety
Office of Communication and Outreach
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Peter L. Capper, MBA - Marketing
BVK McDonald

Ellen R. Cavanagh - Bicycle and Pedestrian Advocacy
Transportation Alternatives

Lois E. Chaplin, MPS - Education
Department of Agricultural Engineering
Cornell University

Tanya Chin Ross - Community Outreach
National SAFE KIDS Campaign

Nita K. Clark - Injury Prevention
Injury Prevention Service
Oklahoma State Department of Health

Andy Clarke - Bicycle and Pedestrian Advocacy
Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals

Judy Comoletti - Education
National Fire Prevention Association

Steve Davidson - State Injury Prevention Program Administration
Office of Injury Prevention
Georgia Department of Public Health

Robert J. Demichelis II - Injury Prevention Policy
Brain Injury Association, Inc.

Karen J. DeWitt - Law Enforcement
Washington State Patrol

Lewis W. Dijkstra - Traffic Engineering Research
Planning Consultant and Transportation Researcher
Rutgers University

Marquita Dudley - Education
American Automobile Association

John C. Fegan, MA - Psychology, Traffic Engineering and Planning
Federal Highway Administration

Laurie L. Flaherty, RN - Nursing
Office of Communication and Outreach
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

John Forester, MS - Bicycle Advocacy, Education
Bicycle Advocate

Valodi Foster, MPH - Injury Prevention
Bicycle Head Injury Prevention Program
California Department of Health Services

Susan S. Gallagher, MPH - Health Education/Policy
Children's Safety Network

Carole S. Guzzetta - Child Injury Prevention Advocacy, Health Education
National Safety Belt Coalition
National Safety Council

Annie M. Hawkins - Education
American Automobile Association

John D. Heeney - Education
National Peer Helpers Association

S. Randal Henry, MPH - Injury Prevention, epidemiology
Epidemiology Analysis
Los Angeles County Department of Health Services

Sarah E. Hunt - Traffic Safety, Health Education
Office of Traffic Injury Control Programs
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Michael E. Jackson - State Bicycle Program Administration
Minnesota State Bicycle Coordinator
Minnesota Department of Transportation

Anthony Kane, PhD - Policy Development and Administration
Executive Director
Federal Highway Administration

Michael J. Klasmeier - Bicycle Education/Advocacy
League of American Bicyclists

Charles Komanoff - Bicycle Advocacy
Right of Way

Mary Anne Lahey, PhD - Psychology, Facilitation
American Institutes for Research

Bryan M. LeMonds - Marketing
BVK McDonald

Marvin M. Levy, PhD - Psychology, Human Factors Research
Office of Research and Traffic Records
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Nancy Libby-Fisher - Injury Prevention
Rhode Island Department of Health

Lauren M. Marchetti - Health Education
Highway Safety Research Center
University of North Carolina

Amy L. Matush, MS - Traffic Safety, Health Education
Office of Traffic Injury Control Programs
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Leigh E. Matusick - Crossing Guard
School Crossing Guard Program
Florida Development of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Education

Roberta C. Mayer - Traffic Safety Outreach
Office of Communications and Outreach
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Barbara McCann - Bicycle Advocacy/Policy
Transportation and Quality of Life Campaign
Surface Transportation Policy Project

Ray McMurphy - Education
Safe Moves Bicycle Safety Program

Rose McMurray, MS - Traffic Safety Policy
Traffic Safety Programs
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Angela D. Mickalide, PhD - Child Injury Prevention Policy
National SAFE KIDS Campaign

Ted R. Miller, PhD - Economics
Pacific Institute for Research & Evaluation

Peter C. Moe - Bicycle Advocacy
National Center for Bicycling and Walking

Allen Muchnick - Bicycle Advocacy
Washington Area Bicycle Association

Gary Mueller - Marketing
BVK McDonald

Randy Neufeld - Bicycle Advocacy
Chicagoland Bicycle Federation

Cheryl S. Neverman, MS - Youth Transportation Safety, Injury Prevention
Office of Communications and Outreach
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Beverly J. O'Bryant, PhD - Education
Community Service and Service Learning Programs
District of Columbia Public Schools

Richard Olken - Bicycle Advocacy
Bikes Belong Coalition

Jeff S. Olson, RA - Engineering and Planning
Millennium Trails
Office of the Secretary
U.S. Department of Transportation

Scott Osberg, PhD - Traffic Safety Research
AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety

Theodore A. Petritsch - Engineering and Planning, State Program Administration
Florida Pedestrian and Bicycle Coordinator
Florida Department of Transportation

Cynthia H. Powell - Injury Prevention
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Richard A. Schieber, MD, MPH - Pediatrics, Epidemiology Research
Childhood Injury Prevention
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Ellen R. Schmidt, MS - Health Education
Children's Safety Network
Education Development Center

Charley R. Seymour, PhD - Community Outreach
Adopt-a-Bike Program

Gary A. Smith, MD, DrPH - Pediatrics
Center for Injury Research and Policy
American Academy of Pediatrics
Children's Hospital

Shelli Stephens-Stidham - Injury Prevention
Injury Control Division
Oklahoma Department of Health

Carol Stroebel - Injury Prevention, Child Health Policy
Coalition Resources, Inc.

Jane C. Stutts, PhD - Human Factors Research
Highway Safety Research Center
University of North Carolina

Randy Swart - Bicycle Advocacy
Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute

Mandy Taft - Community Outreach
National SAFE KIDS Campaign

Carol H. Tan Esse - Traffic Engineering Research
Federal Highway Administration

Sallie R. Thoreson, MS - Injury Prevention
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Allen Turnbull, PhD - Education
BikeWalk Virginia

Preston Tyree - Education
Texas Bicycle Coalition/Education Fund

Elaine A. Tyrrell, MS - Consumer Safety Education
U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission

Maria E. Vegega, PhD - Psychology, Injury Prevention
Office of Traffic Injury Control Programs
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Malcolm Washington, Jr. - Education
East Central Health District, Public Health
Richmond, GA County Health Department

Katherine F. Watkins - Traffic Engineering and Planning
City of Cambridge Traffic Calming Project

Landon H. Wickman, Jr. - Community Outreach
Urban Youth Bike Program
New York Cyclist

James B. Wright, MS - Youth Transportation Safety
Office of Traffic Injury Control Programs
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Robert Young - Motor Vehicle Safety
Office of Defects Investigation
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Charles Zeeger, MS - Traffic Engineering Research
Highway Safety Research Center
University of North Carolina

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