NHTSA conducts research and evaluation projects dealing with behaviors and attitudes in highway safety. Program focus is on drivers, passengers, pedestrians, and motorcyclists and their role in the traffic safety. Laboratory and field studies are conducted to identify and measure behaviors involved in crashes or associated with injuries. Scientific research is conducted to develop and refine countermeasures to deter unsafe behaviors and promote safe alternatives.

• An Evaluation of Intensive Supervision Programs for Serious DWI Offenders
• Drugged Driving Expert Panel Report: A Consensus Protocol for Assessing the Potential of Drugs to Impair Driving
• Drug Per Se Laws: A Review of Their Use in States
• Priorities and Strategies for Improving the Investigation, Use of Toxicology Results, and Prosecution of Drug-Impaired Driving Cases
• Drugs and Human Performance Fact Sheets
• Antihistamines and Driving-Related Behavior: A Review of the Evidence for Impairment
• Pilot Test of New Roadside Survey Methodology for Impaired Driving
• Multiple Medications and Vehicle Crashes: Analysis of Databases
• Results of the 2007 National Roadside Survey of Alcohol and Drug Use by Drivers
• Drug-Impaired Driving: Understanding the Problem and Ways to Reduce It: A Report to Congress
• A State-by-State Analysis of Laws Dealing With Driving Under the Influence of Drugs