Applying the Safe System Approach to Transportation Planning, Design, and Operations (2025)
Chapter: Survey Administration
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"Survey Administration." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Applying the Safe System Approach to Transportation Planning, Design, and Operations. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/29148.
Survey Administration
The team administered the survey in March through May 2023. The sampling strategy was purposive and included sharing a link to the Qualtrics survey with approximately 2,000 professionals in transportation research, policy, planning, design, operations and maintenance, law enforcement, and post-crash care.
The team distributed the survey individually to professional contacts across the professional domains of interest and to the following professional organizations:
- AASHTO’s Committee on Planning
- AASHTO’s Committee on Maintenance
- AASHTO’s Committee on Safety
- Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations
- Emergency Medical Services Agencies across MA and NC
- FHWA’s Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP)
- FHWA’s Tribal Technical Assistance Program (TTAP)
- FHWA’s Office of Tribal Transportation
- Indian Health Service’s Injury Prevention Program
- Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
- Law Enforcement Agencies across MA and NC
- National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)
- NHTSA’s 10 regional offices
- Safe States Alliance
- Transportation Research Board (TRB) Transportation Safety Management Systems Committee (ACS10)
- TRB Economic Development and Land Use Committee (AMS50)
- TRB Pedestrians Committee (ACH10)
- TRB Safety Performance and Analysis (ACS20)
After a 6-week period, 585 professionals had started the survey, while 398 had completed at least 50% of it. The following section describes the results of the survey.
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