Were concepts and technology developed with federal funds used to improve state program effectiveness?
What would be the consequences of removing federal grants from the program? Were projects formally monitored or evaluated to compare results with planned objectives or to determine effectiveness? In the early 1980’s, Congress reduced funding for highway safety grants. To ensure that Federal funds would be spent where they could have the most impact, NHTSA initiated discussions with the states, followed by rulemaking, to establish highway safety priority areas. Rulemaking resulted in identification of six priority areas: impaired driving, occupant protection, police traffic services, traffic records, emergency medical services and trauma care systems and roadway safety (FHWA’s responsibility). Motorcycle safety and pedestrian and bicycle safety were added at a later date. Speed control was added to the list of national priority program areas on December 13, 1994 but it is included as part of Police Traffic Services in this assessment because it was not yet a separate priority area when
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