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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - Operations and Research

The Operations & Research program advances highway safety through research and regulations concerning vehicle technologies and human behavior. This program is focused on researching vehicle and behavioral safety countermeasures, issuing vehicle safety regulations, and investigating vehicle defects.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has set ambitious long-term goals that directly link to the Department of Transportation's long-term goal to reduce passenger vehicle occupant fatalities. For example, the program has established a long-term measure to reduce the passenger vehicle occupant fatality rate to 1.0 by 2008.
  • The Department has not reached its annual performance goal for reducing highway fatalities; however, the overall rate of fatalities reached the lowest ever in 2004.
  • The program recently implemented a systematic review of all of its current Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards over a seven-year period. This will help the program ensure that its regulations are up-to-date and eliminate any weaknesses in its rules.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Implementing the Motorcycle Safety Program Plan to identify methods and strategies for improving motorcycle safety.
  • Ensuring that Department of Transportation has timely and accurate fatalities statistics based on fatality data analysis.

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