Highway Traffic Safety Programs records

Record Group

Identifier: UA-3.3.6

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Highway Traffic Safety Programs records include reports, booklets, magazines, correspondence, and news releases pertaining to driver education, highway improvements, and highway safety programs including vehicle inspection and breathalyzer use. The collection also includes photos of driver education, driving simulators, road courses, research, breathalyzer use, a teen game show tournament, conference groups, Allstate insurance company giving checks, staff and the Highway Traffic program library. The folders are labeled according to Highway Traffic Safety Program classifications system. An index to the system can be found in the folder titled "Historic Photos [and index lists]." The driver education photos show groups including teens, women and nuns.

Also included is the report "A Method of the Evaluation of the Quality of the Traffic Flow Based on Safety, Convenience, and Economy Combined" by Frank DeRose. It was produced in 1958 in the Highway Traffic Safety Center. The report analyzes the monetary value of quality of flow, time as the basis for computing the value of convenience, and operation costs of the vehicle as the basis for the value of economy.

The collection also includes published (1956-57) and unpublished (1956-1970) annual reports and serial #193, MSU Center Letter.

Dates

Creation: 1952-1975, 1986

Creator

Michigan State University. Lifelong Education Programs. Highway Traffic Safety Programs (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish material from this collection must be obtained from University Archives & Historical Collections, Michigan State University.

Historical Note

Highway Traffic Safety Programs, begun in 1956 as the Highway Traffic Safety Center, has reported to Lifelong Education Programs since 1959. From 1961 to 1963, it was operated on a much reduced scale (due to lack of funding), and it went under the name Traffic Safety Program. During 1963-1964, its title was Traffic Center Program. In 1963, the Governor approved state funding, and in 1964, the Highway Traffic Safety Center was reestablished. In 1981, the title was again changed, this time to Highway Traffic Safety Programs.