Brochures/User's Guides
- NEW Safety Conscious Planning Brochure
This brochure describes Safety Conscious Planning, why it is needed, and who the key players are. - NEW Let's Work Together to Save Lives. Six Life-Saving Strategies [HTML, PDF 645KB]
Safe highways are an essential element of American quality of life and economic vitality. FHWA is strongly committed to continous improvements in highway safety. - NEW Reduce Railroad Crossing Collisions [HTML, PDF 1.8MB]
Guidance for Selection of Traffic Control Devices At Highway-Rail Grade Crossing. - NEW The Safety Edge - Pavement Edge Treatment [HTML, PDF 2.15 MB]
You Can Reduce Pavement Edge Drop-off Hazards - Maintenance of Signs and Sign Supports for Local Roads and Streets [HTML, PDF 7.3MB]
The pamphlet was developed by FHWA to assist local governments in understanding the significance of highway signing on safety, identify common safety practices, and provide simple materials for training maintenance crews. This pamphlet can be downloaded and modified for local use. - Put the Brakes on Fatalities Day [HTML, PDF 383KB]
Each year 42,000 Americans are killed on our Nation's Roadways. Imagine... a day with ZERO traffic fatalities. That dream can become a reality on October 10, 2001. This brochure is dedicated to the First Annual Put the Brakes on Fatalities Day. - The new Roadway Safety Guide presents roadway safety information and key resources in a format designed for local elected officials, safety groups, and community leaders. The Guide shows how to identify roadway hazards, choose countermeasures, build coalitions, and where to get help to implement roadway safety initiatives. It also provides a roadway safety checklist for assessing community hazards and examples of successful roadway safety efforts. Copies are available at www.roadwaysafety.org
- Get the Picture. Listen to the Signs [PDF, 247KB]
What if the orange and black signs that silently warn motorists of highway conditions and hazards could come to life and speak? - Have You Heard the Rumbling About Drowsy Drivers? [PDF, 7MB]
Imagine yourself in your car, when slowly but surely it's getting harder and harder to concentrate. - National Drive Safely at Work Week: If every driver in America followed some basic rules of safety for just one week, this nation would save 800 lives and $3 billion. The rules are not difficult. Yet, they represent five traffic safety areas that affect motor vehicle deaths and injuries: safety belts, road rage, impaired driving, sharing the road safely, and driver fatigue [PDF, 28KB].
Pedestrian Safety Brochures
- Always expect a train [HTML, PDF 56KB]
- Crossing advice for pedestrians [HTML, PDF 47KB]
- Don't Have a Blind Spot When it Comes to Walking Safely Near Large Trucks and Buses [HTML, PDF 49KB]
- Walking Safely in Rural Areas - Not Just a "Walk In the Country" [HTML, PDF 43KB]
- For a Safe Path Through Work Zones - "Don't Miss Your Cues!!" [HTML, PDF 44KB]
Brochures in Spanish
- The Signs of Safety are Everywhere [PDF, 52KB]
- For a Safe Path Through Work Zones - "Don't Miss Your Cues" [PDF, 42KB]
- Crossing Advice for Pedestrians [PDF, 77KB]
- Don't Have a Blind Spot When it Comes to Walking Safely Near Large Trucks and Buses [PDF, 48KB]
Read Your Road - Every Highway User's Guide to Driving Safely
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