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Introduction: Rural crashes result in fatality rates twice as high as urban, after accounting for vehicle miles traveled, and those involving farm vehicles tend to be the most severe. Farm vehicle crash interventions have focused on the farm equipment (e.g., lighting and marking) or the farm vehicle operator (e.g., training), despite crashes being most frequently caused by other vehicle driver actions. Community-based campaigns focused on rural drivers have potential to influence driver behavior. The objective of this study was to describe the role, formation, and lessons learned from a community advisory board (CAB) in the development and dissemination of a community-based rural roadway safety campaign., Methods: The CAB provided campaign input through quarterly meetings and email. The campaign had three main CAB and crash data-informed messages: 1) Slow Down, 2) Leave More Space, and 3) Avoid Passing. The CAB led campaign activities to publicize the message, distribute swag, and organize event logistics. To evaluate CAB effectiveness and inform future community engagement efforts, we conducted in-depth, semi-structured telephone interviews with CAB members in July 2020. Interviews were transcribed, coded, and codes were categorized into five main themes., Results: Overall, CAB membership was described as an overwhelmingly positive experience in terms of the CAB structure, culture fostered among the group, responsibilities, and time commitment. Board members reported successful campaign implementation, gave positive feedback regarding the research team's engagement efforts, and provided valuable recommendations for future campaigns (e.g., adding social media components, expansion of CAB age and industry diversity, and increasing group bonding activities)., Conclusions: Results from this study demonstrate the instrumental role and logistics involved in engagement of community advisors for the development and implementation of a rural roadway safety campaign. Steps and lessons from this study can be applied to other community-level injury and violence prevention topics, with a particular focus on rural communities., Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors do not have any competing interests to declare.

Bicycling has become increasingly popular in the United States in recent years for both recreation and utilitarian purposes. Yet, attributes of the bicycle riding experience and riding differences between adults and children and males and females are not well documented. Most existing data on bicycling trip characteristics are based on self-reported interviews or surveys, which are prone to recall bias. The purpose of this exploratory study was to capture naturalistic bicycling data to examine trip characteristics and compare exposure classification accuracy between GPS and video data. We enrolled 10 children and 10 adults and captured their bicycling trips for one week each using PedalPortal, a GPS-enabled helmet camera data capture and coding system developed by the authors and a team of engineering students. Overall, 261 trips, 57 hours, and 670 miles of bicycling were captured. The video data allowed for correct classification of riding location (sidewalk, bicycle lane, street, etc.), an advantage over GPS data alone. Child trips were significantly shorter in both time and distance than adult trips (p<0.01). The majority of male trips were commutes (69.8% child, 60.5% adult), while female trips were more evenly distributed among commute, non-commute utilitarian, and recreation. Adults primarily chose paved streets with no bicycle facilities, but also sought out on-road bicycle facilities (bike lanes and shared lane markings). Children rode most frequently on sidewalks. Results from this study demonstrate that the addition of video data can improve classification of bicycling exposure and differences by age and gender that can help planners and engineers better understand bicyclist behavior variations and increase safety by selecting appropriate and targeted countermeasures.

Purpose: We critically reviewed recent parent-directed teen driving interventions to summarize their success in meeting stated goals; identify promising intervention components and knowledge gaps; aid in the selection, adaptation, and dissemination of effective interventions; and guide future research efforts., Methods: We focused on interventions that included a direct parent component, explicitly stated outcomes related to the teen and/or their parents, were evaluated for parent or teen outcomes, targeted drivers younger than the age of 21 years, and had at least one evaluation study published since 1990 and in English. We conducted a comprehensive systematic search of 26 online databases between November 2013 and January 2014 and identified 34 articles representing 18 interventions., Results: Several interventions-in particular, those that had an active engagement component, incorporated an in-vehicle data recorder system, and had a strong conceptual approach-show promise in improving parental supervisory behaviors during the learner and early independent phases, increasing teen driver skill acquisition, and reducing teens' risky driving behaviors., Conclusions: We identify essential characteristics of effective parent-involved teen driving interventions and their evaluation studies, propose a comprehensive and multitiered approach to intervention, and discuss several research areas and overarching issues for consideration., (Copyright © 2015 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. All rights reserved.)