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UAB UTC’s theme is Traffic Safety and Injury Control Center Theme The UAB UTC’s theme is Traffic Safety and Injury Control. The Center’s Advisory Board recommended adoption of this theme because it was judged to support: (1) the United States Department of Transportation’s vision of safer, simpler and smarter transportation; (2) the first goal of the Federal Transit Administration’s strategy plan of safety and security; (3) the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s goal of addressing the most significant traffic and motor vehicle safety issues; and, (4) the Federal Highway Administration’s goal of reducing the number of highway-related fatalities and injuries. The UTC theme is an excellent fit for the UAB Injury Control Research Center’s (ICRC) faculty, because it complements the ICRC’s Mission, which is: “To help the nation achieve a significant reduction in the rate of injuries and their resulting deaths and disabilities, especially in the southeastern United States.” In the United States in 2007, there were more than 123,700 unintentional injury deaths in persons less than 1 year of age through older than 85 years of age. Of these deaths, approximately 36% were motor vehicle-related, a proportion essentially unchanged from the year before. However, this figure and proportion increases substantially when four additional transportationrelated categories, (1) Other Land Transport, (2) Other Transport, (3) Pedestrian and (4) Pedal Cyclist, are added to the mix. The UAB UTC Theme and the activities conducted in its support apply to more than one mode of transportation. To this end, the research, education and technology transfer activities of the UAB UTC are addressing problems, issues and challenges associated with private motor vehicles, commercial carriers and transit. Since the UAB UTC is the first – and, to our knowledge, the only – UTC ever to be established within a School of Medicine which is a major component of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a high-profile research university, the UAB UTC has chosen to address medically related issues such as (1) the impact of congestion on motor vehicle crash-related (MVC) injury outcome as a function of the “golden hour”/first-responder access; (2) traffic management and emergency preparedness via development of a dynamic traffic assignment and simulation model for incident and emergency management applications; (3) achieving a statistically significant reduction in morbidity and mortality associated with MVCs occurring in medically under served, rural areas of a large Southern state; and, in response to DOT Secretary Ray LaHood’s newly stated priority, a fourth activity domain was established this past year: distracted driving. 4 uab utc annual report 2009-2010
From 2004 to 2008, seat belts saved over 75,000 lives — enough people to fill a large sports arena. CENTER THEME 5
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