Behavioral Highway Safety Grant Program

The Behavioral Highway Safety Grant Program within the Tennessee Highway Safety Office (THSO) provides grant funding to implement statewide programs addressing occupant protection, impaired driving, speed enforcement, pedestrian and bicycle safety, crash data collection and analysis, and other initiatives relating to the human behavioral aspects of highway safety. The goal is to change driver behavior through increased education, enforcement, and community partnerships, including projects that support road safety for all drivers. Projects can also be focused on specific populations such as child passenger safety, teen driver safety education, and older driver safety. The program funds grants that follow evidence-based approaches as described in NHTSA’s Countermeasures That Work.