Abstract The NICC is a minority serving land grant institution with four campuses: The college’s Macy Campus is on the Omaha Reservation; the Santee Campus is on the Santee Reservation while the unban campus is in South Sioux City (all situated in USDOT Region 7). NICC also operates a fourth campus in conjunction with the Pawnee Nation in Oklahoma. Transportation safety is a major concern on Native American reservations. NICC will create a safe driving institute, offering free driver education and training on safe operation of personal and commercial vehicles. The project will create safer travel conditions on reservations and alleviate the acute nationwide commercial motor vehicle driver shortage.
Objective The project goal is to create a driving institute at the Nebraska Indian Community College. The driving institute will offer at no charge to students, during the life of the project, to be trained how to drive personal and commercial vehicles. The commercial driving school and safe driver academy will be able to train safe drivers using the best practices in defensive driving utilizing the latest materials and instructional materials.