Volume 4 – CRP WebResource

Publishing Year: 2003

Tort Liability of Highway Agencies covers basic theories of tort liability of public transportation agencies, activities that give rise to transportation tort liability, immunities and defenses, trial preparation, procedural consideration, and shifting or sharing tort liability. The material, presented in PDF format, is a revision of 13 articles previously compiled and published as the “Torts” volume of Selected Studies in Highway Law.

The SSTL is published jointly by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) and the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP). The PDF can be downloaded by clicking the following button. A breakdown of all the sections of the PDF is also listed below.

TRB’s COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMS

Selected Studies in Transportation Law

Volume 4 - Tort Liabilities of Highway Agencies

Sections

Introduction

Table of Contents

Preface

Section 1 – Tort Liability of Transportation Departments, Officials, and Employees

Section 2 – Transportation Activities That May Give Rise to Tort Liability

Section 3 – Defenses for Discretionary Activities

Section 4 – Selected Transportation Department Defenses In Tort Actions

Section 5 – Trial Preparation, Evidence Rules, and Strategies In Transportation Tort Litigation

Section 6 – Shifting or Sharing of Liability Among the Transportation Department and Others

Index