2010 GHSA Annual Meeting: Presentations

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2010 Annual Meeting
Technology and Highway Safety:
What's Driving Our Future?

Kansas City, Mo., September 26 - 29

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GHSA Business Meeting

Management Review (MR) Update
- Chris Murphy, Director, California Office of Traffic Safety, Sacramento, Calif.
- Betty Mercer, Principal, Mercer Consulting Group LLC, East Lansing, Mich.
  - Joint Presentation

Workshop 1
Impaired Driving: They Do It Because They Can!

David Wallace, Director, National Center for DWI Courts, Alexandria, Va.
- Presentation [2.4 MB, 23 pgs.]
David Swarts, Commissioner and Governor’s Representative, New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, Albany, N.Y.
Robert Maccarone, Deputy Commissioner and Director, NY Division of Criminal Justice Services, Office of Probation and Correctional Alternatives, Albany, N.Y.
- Joint Presentation (Swarts and Maccarone) [490 KB, 19 pgs.]
Stephen Talpins, Chief Executive Officer, National Partnership on Alcohol Misuse and Crime (NPAMC), Rockville, Md.
- Presentation [591 KB, 34 pgs.]

Workshop 2
Highway Safety Communication in the Age of Social Media

Susan Gorcowski, Associate Administrator, Office of Communications and Consumer Information, NHTSA, Washington, D.C.
- Presentation [1.8 MB, 22 pgs.]
Richard Palmer, Officer and Public Safety Specialist, Washington Township Fire Department, Dayton, Ohio
- Presentation [links to Prezi website]
Scott Monty, Global Digital and Multimedia Communications Manager, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Mich.
- Presentation [links to Slideshare website]

Workshop 3
What’s in a Poll? Best Practices in Behavioral Data Collection

Peter Woolley, Director, Fairleigh Dickinson PublicMind Poll, Madison, N.J.
- Presentation [1.3 MB, 33 pgs.]
Terry Pence, Traffic Safety Director, Traffic Operations Division, Texas Department of Transportation, Austin, Texas
- Presentation [294 KB, 13 pgs.]

Workshop 4
Distracted Driving and Managing Technology

David Teater, Director, Transportation Initiatives, National Safety Council, Itasca, Ill.
- Presentation [430 KB, 20 pgs.]
Michael Brown, Director, Office of Impaired Driving and Occupant Protection, NHTSA, Washington, D.C.
- Presentation [1.8 MB, 18 pgs.]
Matthew Howard, Co-Founder and Executive Chief Officer, ZoomSafer, Reston, Va.
- Presentation [541 KB, 13 pgs.]

Workshop 5
Best Practices in Electronic Grants Management Systems

Spencer Moore, Deputy Director, Georgia Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, Atlanta, Ga.
NOTE: The following presentation has been split up into three parts for easier downloading.
- Part 1 [4.2 MB, 12 pgs.]
- Part 2 [2.6 MB, 12 pgs.]
- Part 3 [7.6 MB, 13 pgs.]
Bill Whitfield, Highway Safety Program Administrator, Missouri Department of Transportation, Jefferson City, Mo.
- Presentation [1 MB, 27 pgs.]

Workshop 6
DDACTS: Past, Present And Future

Michael Geraci, Director, Office of Safety Programs, NHTSA, Washington, D.C.
- Presentation [149 KB, 10 pgs.]
Ryan Klitzsch, Traffic Safety Division Director, Indiana Highway Safety Office, Indiana Criminal Justice Institute, Indianapolis, Ind.
- Presentation [542 KB, 19 pgs.]
Captain Scott Silverii, Uniform Patrol Division Commander, LaFourche Parish Sheriff’s Office, Thibodaux, La.
- Presentation [1.5 MB, 32 pgs.]

Special NHTSA Briefing
Clicking to Crash Data

Dennis Utter, Director, Office of Traffic Records and Analysis, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, NHTSA, Washington, D.C.
- Presentation [2.9 MB, 52 pgs.]

Tuesday General Session

Captain Glenn Hansen, Howard County Department of Police, Ellicott City, Md.
- Presentation [926 KB, 22 pgs.]
Adrian Lund, President, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Va.
- Presentation [3.2 MB, 49 pgs.]

Workshop 7
Helping Teens Drive Safely

Jim Graham, Community Relations Manager, Ford Motor Company Fund, Dearborn, Mich.
- Presentation [1.6 MB, 22 pgs.]
Michele Huitric, Health Communications Lead, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga.
- Presentation [2.2 MB, 21 pgs.]
Pam Fischer, Director and Governor’s Representative, New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety, Trenton, N.J.
- Presentation [1.5 MB, 17 pgs.]

Workshop 8
Shifting Cultural Gears

Denise G. Osborn JD, MPH, Director, Injury Prevention & Behavioral Health, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), Arlington, Va.
- Presentation [2.4 MB, 21 pgs.]
Lilliard Richardson, Professor, Truman School of Public Affairs, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
- Presentation [745 KB, 26 pgs.]
Bernard Arseneau, State Traffic Engineer and Director of Policy, Safety and Strategic Initiatives Division, Minnesota Department of Transportation, St. Paul, Minn.
- Presentation [2.1 MB, 25 pgs.]

Workshop 10
Creative Approaches to Occupant Protection Strategies

Tom Artushin, Safety Strategy and Communications Manager, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Mich.
- Presentation [869 KB, 14 pgs.]
Max Donath, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Director, Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.
- Presentation [1.6 MB, 15 pgs.]

Workshop 11
Automated Enforcement: We've Got Your Number

David Kelly, Executive Director, Partnership for Advancing Road Safety, Springfield, Va.
- Presentation [253 KB, 14 pgs.]
Michael Stout, Director and Governor’s Representative, Division of Traffic Safety, Illinois Department of Transportation, Springfield, Ill.
- Presentation [1.8 MB, 21 pgs.]
Corporal Cliff Anderson, Traffic Enforcement Unit, Davenport Police Department, Davenport, Iowa
- Presentation [1 MB, 15 pgs.]

Workshop 12
Reducing Motorcycle Deaths and Injuries

James Hedlund, Principal, Highway Safety North, Ithaca, N.Y.
- Presentation [27 KB, 14 pgs.]
Matthew Moore, Vice President, Highway Loss Data Institute, Arlington, Va.
- Presentation [1.2 MB, 35 pgs.]

Grantee Workshop

Lowell Porter, Director and Governor’s Representative, Washington Traffic Safety Commission and GHSA Vice Chairman, Olympia, Wash.
- Presentation [117 KB, 13 pgs.]

Workshop 14
Innovative Enforcement Techniques

Lowell Porter, Director and Governor’s Representative, Washington Traffic Safety Commission and GHSA Vice Chairman, Olympia, Wash.
- Presentation [1.3 MB, 50 pgs.]
Sergeant Scott Kristiansen, Buffalo Grove Police Department, Buffalo Grove, Ill.
- Presentation [1.8 MB, 24 pgs.]

Workshop 15
Older Driver Safety: A Matter of Stakeholder Cooperation

Essie Wagner, Program Analyst, NHTSA, Washington, D.C.
- Presentation [1.2 MB, 12 pgs.]
Jed Johnson, Director, National Center on Senior Transportation, Washington, D.C.
- Presentation [647 KB, 20 pgs.]
Dr. David Carr, Associate Professor of Medicine and Neurology, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.
Dr. Tom Meuser, Director of Gerontology Graduate Program and Associate Professor of Gerontology and Social Work, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, Mo.
Dr. Marla Berg-Weger, Professor and Director of Field Education, School of Social Work, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo.
- Joint Presentation (Carr, Meuser and Berg-Weger) [1,8 MB, 22 pgs.]

General Session
Toward Zero Deaths: A National Strategic Highway Safety Plan

Joe Toole, Associate Administrator for Safety, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Washington, D.C.
- Presentation [3 MB, 24 pgs.]
Tony Kane, Director, Engineering and Technical Services, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), Washington, D.C.
- Presentation [1.1 MB, 22 pgs.]