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Understanding the Highway Transportation System: Roles, Responsibilities, and Skills

The Highway Transportation System (HTS) comprises people, vehicles, and roadways, functioning to ensure safe travel. This system includes drivers, passengers, pedestrians, and various vehicle types, with laws enforced by state and local police. Understanding the Vehicle Code and accident causes, such as tailgating and intoxication, is essential for safety. Key skills for drivers include decision-making, physical handling of vehicles, and social skills for courteous driving. Awareness of personal responsibilities, including financial and environmental impacts, is crucial in maintaining the HTS effectively.

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Understanding the Highway Transportation System: Roles, Responsibilities, and Skills

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  1. Ch 1:You are the Driver

  2. HTS Highway Transportation System What’s the purpose of the HTS?

  3. HTS consists of: • People • Vehicles • Roadways

  4. People • Drivers • Passengers • Pedestrians • Be aware that other people drive when they shouldn’t (assume the worst) -tired -sick -intoxicated

  5. Vehicles -bikes - motorbikes -cars -vans -buses -campers -farm vehicles -construction vehicles -semi trucks

  6. Roadways -dirt roads -suburban streets -city streets -rural highways -multi lane highways

  7. Vehicle Code • Federal and state legislatures pass the laws which make up the Vehicle Code. • State and local police enforce the laws • State departments of motor vehicles set up rules and regulations for the control of drivers and motor vehicles

  8. Vehicle Code • Courts decide whether drivers charged with violating the laws are guilty or innocent • Local, county, and state traffic engineers maintain the roadways and traffic controls

  9. Your Driving Task

  10. Skills Decision-Making (Mental) Skills • IPDE Process -Identify -Predict -Decide -Execute

  11. Systems that help with the IPDE process • The Smith System is an organized method designed to help drivers develop good seeing habits. • The Zone Control System is a method for managing the space around your vehicle *Combined, all three make up a great recipe for Defensive Driving

  12. More Skills • Physical Skills -steering -braking/acceleration • Social Skills • -bringing problems to the road

  13. Small Groups • In groups of 3 list the following: • 5 possible driving errors that annoy or irritate other drivers (poor social skills) • 5 different ways that a driver can be courteous to others (good social skills)

  14. Driving Responsibilities(page 8) • Attitude • Breakdowns in the HTS Accident or Collision? Causes of Collisions Tailgating Speeding Drinking/Drugs Fatigue

  15. Road Rage • http://www.weau.com/home/headlines/81780252.html • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYm9vCPLoG4

  16. Cell Phones • Texting and drinking • Texting App. • Oprah • Today Show “Texting and Driving”

  17. Comparing the Odds • Plane crash • 1 in 4,600,000 • Fire • 1 in 40,000 • Car crash • 1 in 125

  18. Causes of Death • Adults – Heart Disease/Cancer • Teens – Car Crashes Why the difference?

  19. Other Responsibilities(page 10) • Financial • Envirionmental

  20. Clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV2W36fPWng http://www.courant.com/features/live-smart/ct-rides-0530-cartips-20100527,0,3733228.story http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvRpGezVNEU

  21. Graduated License System • Permit Phase • Initial Licensing Phase • Full Licensing Phase

  22. Organ Donor Program Indicate your choice on the back of the drivers license.

  23. Implied Consent Program What have you implied you will consent to?

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