When Peer Pressure Is a Good Thing: Messaging, Behavior Modification and Young Driver Safety

About this episode

The episode discusses leveraging positive peer influence to improve young driver safety and explores effective strategies for safer driving behaviors.

TTI is approaching 25 years in researching and championing young driver safety through initiatives like the groundbreaking Teens in the Driver Seat program. Allan sits down with TTI's Lisa Minjares-Kyle and Stacey Tisdale, who lead the Institute's Youth Transportation Safety (YTS) Program, to talk about leveraging positive peer influence among teens to engender safer driving behaviors, as well as other proven strategies that have saved lives and prevented injuries. We look at the importance o...

People in this episode

Host: Allan

Guests: Lisa Minjares-Kyle, Stacey Tisdale

Topics covered

• young driver safety
• peer influence
• behavior modification
• transportation safety
• teen driving

Keywords

• young driver safety
• peer pressure
• behavior modification
• Teens in the Driver Seat
• transportation safety

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Texas A&M Transportation Institute, Teens in the Driver Seat, Youth Transportation Safety (YTS) Program

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