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List of Acronyms

AAA American Automobile Association
ADOT Arizona Department of Transportation
ALISS Accident Location Identification and Surveillance System
BEO Branch of Engineering Operations
BIA Bureau of Indian Affairs
BIADOT Bureau of Indian Affairs Division of Transportation
BIAHSO Bureau of Indian Affairs Highway Safety Office
CDC Center for Disease Control
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
DOJ Department of Justice
FHWA Federal Highway Administration
FY Fiscal Years
GOHS Governor's Office on Highway Safety
GPS Global Positioning System
HBRRP Highway Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program
HES Hazard Elimination Program
A federally funded program, administered through the states, that is directed at improving the safety of roadway facilities.
HPMS Highway Performance Monitoring System
A federal system of roadway and traffic data collected by the states for all public roads.
HPR Highway Planning and Research
HSIP Highway Safety Improvement Program
A program that has the objective of reducing the number and severity of accidents and decreasing the potential for accidents on roadways.
IHS Indian Health Service
IM Interstate Maintenance
IRR Indian Reservation Roads Program

IRR Negotiated Rule-Making Process
A joint tribal, BIA and FHWA process to update IRR rules and the funding formula for recommendation to the Secretary of Interior.

ITS Intelligent Transportation System
LTAP Local Technical Assistance Program
MIS Management Information System
MMUCC Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria
A federal project that identified the minimum crash data that needs to be collected by law enforcement personnel.
MVC Motor Vehicle Crash
NHI National Highway Institute
NHS National Highway System
NHTSA National Highway Trafic Safety Administration
ROW Rights of Way
SMS Safety Management System
STP Surface Transportation Program

Surface Transportation Reauthorization
Multi-year (usually six) authorization of federal highway and transit funding programs.

TEA21 Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century
THSIP Tribal Highway Safety Improvement Program
TIP Tribal Improvement Plan
TraCS Traffic and Criminal Software System
Motor vehicle crash data collection and coordination software developed by the Federal Highway Administration FHWA and the Iowa Department of ransportation.
TTAP Tribal Tehnical Assistance Program
USC United States Code
USDOT United States Department of Transportation
WSDOT Washington State Department of Transportation

References

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  1. Arizona Department of Health Services. "Arizona Injury Surveillance and Prevention Plan, 2002 - 2005."
  2. Arizona Department of Health Services. "Health Status Profile of American Indians in Arizona, 1998."
  3. Arizona Department of Health Services. "Health Status Profile of American Indians in Arizona, 1999."
  4. Arizona Department of Health Services. "Health Status Profile of American Indians in Arizona, 2000."
  5. Arizona Department of Health Services. "Health Status Profile of American Indians in Arizona, 2001."
  6. Arizona Department of Health Services. "Health Status Profile of American Indians in Arizona, 2002."
  7. Arizona Department of Transportation. "Arizona's Date with ALISS, An Introduction to the Arizona Traffic Records System." Traffic Records Coordinating Committee. February, 1971.
  8. Arizona Department of Transportation. "Motor Vehicle Crash Facts, 1998."
  9. Arizona Department of Transportation. "Motor Vehicle Crash Facts, 1999."
  10. Arizona Department of Transportation. "Motor Vehicle Crash Facts, 2000."
  11. Arizona Department of Transportation. "Motor Vehicle Crash Facts, 2001."
  12. Arizona Department of Transportation. "Motor Vehicle Crash Facts, 2002."
  13. Arizona Department of Transportation - Local Government Section. " Hazard Elimination System (HES)." No date.
  14. Arizona Department of Transportation, Traffic Engineering Group. "The Arizona Highway Safety Improvement Program Manual, Draft". December 23, 2003.
  15. California Department of Transportation - Division of Local Assistance. "Local Assistance Program Guidelines, Chapter 9 Hazard Elimination Safety (HES)". October 31, 2001.
  16. Center for Disease Control. Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System for the year 2000.
  17. Minnesota Department of Transportation - Office of Traffic Engineering & ITS. "HES Hazard Elimination Safety Program TEA 21 State of Minnesota Program Criteria". July, 2003.
  18. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Uniform Guidelines for State Highway Safety Programs, Highway Safety Program, Guideline No. 10 - "Traffic Records".
  19. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Uniform Guidelines for State Highway Safety Programs, Highway Safety Program, Guideline No. 21 - "Roadway Safety".
  20. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. "Traffic Records Assessment On-Site Workbook." Washington D.C. 1999. Requisition Ref. Number NTS-01-7-05244.
  21. National Model for the Statewide Application of Data Collection & Management Technology to Improve Highway Safety Including the Traffic and Criminal Software (TraCS). Email: national.model@dot.state.ia.us.
  22. Oregon Department of Transportation - Technical Services, Traffic Management Section. "Hazard Elimination Program (HEP), A Guide to Developing Federally Funded Roadway Safety Projects". October, 2002.
  23. Rhode Island Department of Transportation. Rhode Island Electronic Accident Reporting System (EARS). Contact: Chief Traffic Engineer, RI Dept. of Transportation, 2 Capitol Hill, #370, Providence, RI 02903. (401) 222-2694.
  24. United States. 23 Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter 1, Subchapter J - Highway Safety, Part 924 - "Highway Safety Improvement Program". April 2, 2002 Edition.
  25. United States. Department of Transportation - Federal Highway Administration. "Federal Lands Highway Program; Management Systems Pertaining to the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Reservation Roads Program". Final Rule. Federal Register 27 February 2004, pp 9490-9502.
  26. United States. Department of Transportation - Federal Highway Administration. E-Mail titled "Tribal Highway Safety Improvement Project" from Kenneth Epstein to Esther Corbett. June 4, 2004.
  27. United States. Department of Transportation - Federal Highway Administration. Memorandum titled "Funding for Safety Activities" from Director, Office of Engineering to Mr. Jerald P. Clark. September 23, 1993.
  28. United States. Department of Transportation - Federal Highway Administration & National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in Cooperation with the National Governors' Association of Highway Safety Representatives. "Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCC)". August, 1998.
  29. United States. Department of Transportation - Federal Highway Administration & National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. "Safety Management Systems: Good Practices for Development and Implementation". May 1996. Available @ FHWA, Office of Safety, Room 3407, 400 Seventh St., SW., Washington, DC 20590, or electronically.
  30. United States. US Code, Title 23, Chapter 2, Section 204 (c). (PDF Only)
  31. United States. US Code, Title 23, Chapter 1, Section 132. (PDF Only)
  32. Washington State Department of Transportation - Highways and Local Programs. "Hazard Elimination Safety (HES) Program".
  33. Wisconsin Department of Transportation. "Northwest Wisconsin Tribal Governments Federal Aid Transportation Program Guidelines". October, 2001.

Bibliography

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  2. The Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research. National Institutes of Health, Alliance for Human Research Protection. April 1979.
  3. Carey, Jason. Arizona Local Government Safety Project Analysis Model (Final Report No. 504) (PDF Only). Arizona Department of Transportation. 2001.
  4. Christensen, Kim and Walth, Brent. Driven to Death [electronic mail]. The Oregonian. December 8, 2003.
  5. Considering Safety in the Transportation Planning Process (PDF Only). United States Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration. No date.
  6. The Consumer Products Safety Commission's Revised Injury Cost Model (PDF Only). U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission, Public Services Research Institute. December 2000.
  7. Economic Burden of Traffic Crashes on Employers. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. 2003.
  8. Enhancing ADOT's Traffic Data Resource (PDF Only). Arizona Department of Transportation, Arizona Transportation Research Center. ATRC Research Notes. June 2001.
  9. Ethical Issues in Research Involving Human Participants. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes for Health, National Library of Medicine, Current Bibliographies in Medicine 99-3. 1999.
  10. Fatal Motor Vehicle Crashes on Indian Reservations: 1975-2002 (PDF Only). National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Technical Information Service. April 2004.
  11. FHWA Safety Resources. Federal Highway Administration. 2004.
  12. Field Safety Competency Framework. Federal Highway Administration. Date unknown.
  13. Finding Funding For Injury and Violence Prevention: An Overview. Children's Safety Network. Date unknown.
  14. Freeman, William L. The Protection of Potential Volunteers and Tribal Communities in Research Involving the Indian Health Service (PDF Only). Date unknown.
  15. Guidelines for Submitting (Traffic Safety Research) Pre-Proposals. American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety. May 2003.
  16. Grossman, D., Sugarman, J., Fox, C., & Moran, J. Motor-Vehicle Crash-Injury Risk Factors Among American Indians. Accident Analysis and Prevention, Vol. 29. No. 3. pp. 313-319. Great Britain. 1997.
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  19. Injury Prevention Network Region IX Newsletter. Prevention Institute. Date unknown.
  20. Intersection Design and Safety Toolbox. Institute of Transportation Engineers. 2004.
  21. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. "Motor Vehicle Crash Project Final Report". Arizona Department of Health Services, Phoenix, Arizona. October 2003.
  22. Knapp, K., Walker, D., & Wilson, E. Challenges and Strategies for Local Road Safety Training and Technology Transfer. June 14, 2002.
  23. Leiphart, Kristine. Pushing Through the Safety Plateau. Public Roads, Vol. 66, No. 4. January/February, 2003.
  24. Madsen, Wayne. Protecting Indigenous Peoples' Privacy from 'Eyes in the Sky'. Date unknown.
  25. Mak, King, and Sicking, Dean. Roadside Safety Analysis Program (RSAP) - Engineer's Manual, NCHRP Report 492. Transportation Research Board. 2003.
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  28. Roadside Safety Tools for Local Agencies, NCHRP Synthesis 321 (PDF Only). Transportation Research Board. 2003.
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  33. Use of Geographic Information Technology to Identify Motor Vehicle Crash Cluster Site: Emerging Technology Expands Tribal Partnerships (PDF Only). The IHS Primary Care Provider. September 2003.

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