Overview of Innovation
Recent advances in highway safety analysis can provide more reliable information for effective investment decisions on the nation’s highway system. The objective of this EDC-3 initiative is broader implementation of two of these advances—predictive approaches and systemic approaches—into safety management processes and project development decision making.
Predictive approaches combine crash, roadway inventory, and traffic volume data to provide more reliable estimates of an existing or proposed roadway’s expected safety performance. The results inform roadway safety management and project development decision making as well as safety countermeasure selection and evaluation. Examples of tools State and local highway agencies can use to apply predictive approaches include AASHTO’s Highway Safety Manual, AASHTOWare’s Safety Analyst software, FHWA’s Interactive Highway Safety Design Model and Crash Modification Factors Clearinghouse, and several commercial products in the marketplace.
Systemic approaches target high-risk roadway features associated with particular severe crash types. A comprehensive safety management program incorporates a systemic approach to complement traditional high crash location-oriented (i.e., “hot spot”) approaches. The Missouri and Minnesota DOTs have been leaders in implementing the systemic approach to safety. FHWA’s Systemic Safety Project Selection Tool and AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety’s usRAP software are examples of tools available to implement a systemic approach to safety management.
Implementation Team
- Gene Amparano, FHWA RC Safety & Design ([email protected])
- Victoria Brinkly, Western Federal Lands ([email protected])
- Clayton Chen, FHWA Safety R&D ([email protected])
- Tim Colling, Michigan LTAP, Michigan Tech ([email protected])
- Matthew Enders, Washington State LTAP Representation ([email protected])
- Dave Engstrom, FHWA RC Safety & Design ([email protected])
- Linda Guin, FHWA AL Division ([email protected])
- Kelly Hardy, AASHTO ([email protected])
- Tim Harmon, New Hampshire DOT ([email protected])
- Hillary Isebrands, FHWA RC Safety & Design ([email protected])
- Judith Johnson, FHWA Public Affairs ([email protected])
- Earl “Rusty” Lee, Delaware LTAP, University of Delaware ([email protected])
- Jennifer Marandino, South Jersey Transportation Planning Authority ([email protected])
- Mick Matzke, FHWA Office of Infrastructure ([email protected])
- John McFadden, FHWA RC Safety & Design ([email protected])
- George Merritt, FHWA RC Safety & Design ([email protected])
- John Miller, Missouri DOT ([email protected])
- John Milton, Washington State DOT ([email protected])
- Kevin Murphy, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission ([email protected])
- Don Petersen, FHWA WA Division ([email protected])
- Stephen Read, Virginia DOT ([email protected])
- Jerry Roche, FHWA Office of Safety ([email protected])
- Jacinda Russell, FHWA RI Division ([email protected])
- Karen Scurry, FHWA Office of Safety ([email protected])
- Will Stein, FHWA MN Division ([email protected])
- Priscilla Tobias, Illinois DOT ([email protected])
- Betsey Tramonte, FHWA Louisiana Division ([email protected])
- Derek Troyer, Ohio DOT ([email protected])
- Mark Vizecky, Minnesota DOT ([email protected])
- Jeremey Vortherms, Iowa DOT ([email protected])
Implementation Plan: Working Draft
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