The Road Safety Champion Program (RSCP) is a nationally recognized certificate program designed to build a knowledgeable, safety minded workforce, responsible for operating, maintaining, and designing local roads. Road Safety Champions prioritize safety and are motivated to implement safety improvements that reduce fatalities and serious injuries on rural and local roadways.
The National Center for Rural Road Safety is a premier center of excellence for training, resources, technical assistance, and education on rural road safety issues. Funded by the Federal Highway Administration, we equip rural communities to prevent all deaths and serious injuries on their roadways.
As rural road practitioners, we have been there before – without enough funds to make the safety improvements our roadways need. So, in the spirit of this giving season, we [&hel
BOZEMAN, MONTANA – 10/16/2023 – Transportation engineers and design professionals can now access an online training series on the fundamentals of roadway design for $50 or less
BOZEMAN, MONTANA – 10/4/2023 – As the year draws to a close, the National Center for Rural Road Safety encourages rural transportation agencies to take advantage of these key a
BOZEMAN, MONTANA – 9/8/2023 – The National Center for Rural Road Safety (the Center) is proud to announce that Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Administrator Shailen Bhatt
BOZEMAN, MONTANA – 7/31/23 – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant program is living up to its title in the state
BOZEMAN, MONTANA – 7/27/23 – The National Center for Rural Road Safety (the Center) is in the final stages of planning its National Summit on Rural Road Safety. The summit [&he
BOZEMAN, MONTANA – 05/30/2023 – Slow down and read this. Rural Road Safety Awareness (RRSAW) week will be held July 17-21 this year. With new federal funding available for rura
BOZEMAN, MONTANA – MAY 22, 2023 – The University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) has been awarded a Tribal Technical Assistance Program (TTAP) Center cooperative agreement to
BOZEMAN, MONTANA – April 14, 2023 – Local Road Safety Plans (LRSP) are proven to save lives, but for some rural road practitioners, hiring a consultant to develop a plan [&hell
of roadway fatalities occur in rural areas
Roundabouts can reduce injury crashes at intersections by 75%
Emergency response times are roughly 50% longer in rural areas
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The National Center for Rural Road Safety provides coordinated, multidisciplinary, scalable, and accessible safety resources in order to empower rural road users to accelerate road safety improvements and save lives.
