Funds to Promote Motorcycle Safety

1. Objective: To ensure that motorcycle operators and their passengers meet standards which contribute to the safe operation of motorcycles and protection from injuries resulting from crashes.
2. Examples of Fundable Components
   1. Training - Train riders, equipment, and management
   2. Public Information/Education - Media materials and personnel
3. Examples of Program Evaluation Measures
   1. Motorcycle fatalities and injuries, motorcycle head injuries and fatalities.
   2. Motorcycle helmet usage.
   3. Type of education course, number trained for each educational program, and percent of target population trained.
   4. Number and types of materials distributed, frequency of distribution, public knowledge and attitudes about program, and number and percent of target population reached.
   5. Cost per motorcycle fatality/injury averted, cost per head injury and head injury fatality averted, cost per rider trained by program type, cost per type of public information/educational materials distributed.

Source: The Guidelines for the Submission of Highway Safety Grant Applications.