(This article is reproduced, with permission, from the February 2001 issue (Volume 16, Number 1) of T²echnology Transfer Quarterly: Florida's Traffic Engineering and Safety Training Update.)

Collisions between pedestrians and motor vehicles are a serious problem in the United States. How serious a problem? In the last decade, more than 63,000 pedestrians lost their lives. Another 1.7 million were injured in motor vehicle related crashes during that same decade. Annually, pedestrians account for almost 14 percent of all motor vehicle deaths nationwide.

With this in mind--Safer Journey--an interactive CD-ROM was developed by the U. S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration to raise the level of awareness among road users and safety practitioners about the seriousness of pedestrian/motor vehicle conflict.

The CD-ROM areas of activity include:

• The Journey--lets you take a virtual journey. See if you can make it safely to your destination and back home again.
• The Quiz--tests your knowledge of pedestrian safety.
• The Library--Iets you discover more about pedestrian safety and how you can play an active role protecting your pedestrians through community traffic safety programs.

[Editor's Note: Copies of this CD-ROM^* are available free of charge from the Federal Highway Administration. To order, telephone Leverson Boodlal at 202-366-8044 or order on-line at http://www.safety.fhwa.dot.gov/walk/order/order2.htm.]