UNC Highway Safety Research Center
Educational Research Institute
Why pick this one
UNC Highway Safety Research Center was established by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1965 and developed the graduated driver licensing concept.
Best for
- young driver safety research and graduated licensing policy
- older driver safety programs
- pedestrian and bicyclist safety research
- traffic operations and roadway design studies
- transportation safety data analysis
- naturalistic driving behavior research
- transportation safety training and education
Specialties
- young driver safety
- older driver safety
- graduated driver licensing research
- naturalistic driving data research
- pedestrian and bicyclist safety
- traffic operations and roadway design
- Safe Systems research
What makes them different
- Established by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1965
- Credited with developing the graduated driver licensing concept in the 1970s
- Develops analysis-ready transportation safety databases using naturalistic driving data
- Uses in-vehicle camera technology to study driver behavior, including distraction among young drivers
- Mission covers the safety, sustainability, and efficiency of all surface transportation modes
Distilled from this business's own website.
Contact & Location
- Address
- 725 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC 27514-5714
- Phone
- +19199622202
- Website
- http://www.hsrc.unc.edu/
Services
- transportation safety research
- program evaluation
- information dissemination
- training and education
- transportation data system development
- transportation profession development