Office of Safety R&D Fact Sheet

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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of Safety Research and Development (R&D) helps reduce highway crashes and related fatalities and injuries by developing and implementing safety innovations through a program of nationally coordinated research and technology development. Selections from this broad research portfolio are highlighted below.

SAFETY MANAGEMENT

The Safety Management team’s purpose is to support positive safety resource allocation decisions through consistent high-quality data collection and analysis, analytical tool development to transform data into actionable information, and formal evaluation of the effectiveness of potential safety improvements.

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