The Potential Impacts of a Towaway Reporting Threshold on Driver/User and Roadway Safety Programs
Forrest Council, Senior Research Scientist, University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center,  council@claire.hsrc.unc.edu
Telephone:  919-962-0454

Forrest Council is a Senior Research Scientist at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center (HSRC) and at Bellomo-McGee, Inc. (BMI).  He retired as Director of HSRC in 1999.  He holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and has conducted highway safety research for 34 years.  He has served on a number of national committees and panels related to safety research and data, including serving a Chairman of the TRB Committee on Methodology for Evaluating Highway Improvements.  A significant component of his work over the past twelve years has involved serving as Principal Investigator for the planning, development and implementation of the Federal Highway Administration’s Highway Safety Information System (HSIS) – a nine-state data base which captures accident, traffic, and roadway inventory variables for use in FHWA internal research and in research activities by a variety of external researchers.