Best Highway Safety Practices Institute
About Best Highway Safety Practices Institute
If you care about safer roads, this is the kind of place that keeps the conversation grounded in evidence instead of guesswork. Best Highway Safety Practices Institute gives professionals, policymakers, the press, and the public access to empirical data, findings, guidance, and recommended practices, along with the training and forums that help those ideas get used. It matters because highway safety decisions affect real streets, real drivers, and real communities, and this institute is built around peer review, field research, and practical guidance.
What sets the institute apart is its strong reliance on fact-based standards and due process. It also gives a wide audience, from engineers and law enforcement to lawyers, researchers, and the public, a place to find research, policy guidance, and a recommended best practice directory in one public-facing resource.
Programs
The concrete work this nonprofit runs. Each program may later become a fundable project.
Education and research
Uses a multidisciplinary approach to highway safety, performs its own research, and monitors research from other groups, institutes, and agencies.
Professional training
Provides training for persons working in highway safety and ongoing professional development.
Policy forums
Provides policy forums and presents findings to professional and public policy communities.
Informational forum, database, and resource directory
Creates an Internet-accessible forum, database, and resource directory for academia, engineers, law enforcement, law practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and the public.
Recommended best practice directory
Maintains a recommended best practice directory for highway safety and public policy work.
Conferences
Provides conferences for ongoing professional development.
About this work
In their own words — what they do, who it reaches, and what your dollars actually fund.
Mission
The Institute advances best highway safety practices through education, research, professional training, policy forums, and guidance grounded in field research and peer review.
Who they serve
Professionals, policymakers, the press, the public, and others working in highway safety, including academia, engineers, law enforcement, law practitioners, and researchers.
Our story
Best Highway Safety Practices Institute was founded in 2004 in Portland, Oregon by professionals who specialize in highway safety issues. It was created to advance best highway safety practices through research, peer review, and multidisciplinary expertise, so public policy and roadway safety work could be grounded in solid evidence.
Need help?
How someone in need can access Best Highway Safety Practices Institute’s services.
The Institute provides downloadable documents, information request forms, video clips, volunteer networking, live chat, empirical data, findings, guidance, recommended practices, and resources through its volunteer center and related materials.
Stories
The people behind the work.
In their words
Dedicated to the common good, fact based safety standards and laws
One Nation, One Standard, One Look, One Expectation Based on Fact!
Ways to help
Concrete needs and volunteer roles Best Highway Safety Practices Institute has shared.
Current needs
- Blog editors
- Research paper archivists
- Website, newsletter, and PR editors
- State activists
- Subject matter experts in human factors, engineering, enforcement, judiciary, and legislative liaison
- Video producers
- Fund raisers
- Speakers
Volunteer opportunities
- Professionals in engineering, judicial, academic, law, enforcement, political, and private-sector fields
- Original safety researchers
- Speakers
- Advocates
- Blog editors
- Research paper archivists
- Website, newsletter, and PR editors
- Video producers
Recognition & press
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this nonprofit and how its work happens.
What does the institute provide to the public and professionals?
It offers empirical data, findings, guidance, recommended practices, and resources. It also provides professional training, policy forums, conferences, and a recommended best practice directory.
Who is the institute's information intended for?
Its materials are intended for professionals, policymakers, the press, and the public, including academia, engineers, law enforcement, law practitioners, researchers, and others working in highway safety.
How does the volunteer center help people get involved?
The volunteer center offers downloadable documents, information request forms, video clips, volunteer networking, and live chat. It also looks for people who can help with research, editing, speaking, advocacy, and subject matter expertise.
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