A Guide for Maintaining Pedestrian Facilities for Enhanced Safety provides guidance for maintaining pedestrian facilities with the primary goal of increasing safety and mobility. The Guide addresses the needs for pedestrian facility maintenance; common maintenance issues; inspection, accessibility, and compliance; maintenance measurers; funding; an
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FHWA awarded three cooperative agreements to Las Vegas, NV; Miami-Dade, FL; and San Francisco, CA to demonstrate and evaluate the effectiveness of a combined pedestrian safety engineering and intelligent transportation systems (ITS)-based areawide countermeasures program for reducing pedestrian fatalities, injuries, conflicts, and other surrogate m
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2013-01-01
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The following local road safety checklist is designed to provide State DOTs and LTAP centers with a list of questions to use to identify opportunities to enhance or initiate a local road safety program. While the list is not designed for local agencies, it may provide some questions local agencies may consider when faced with questions regarding th
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2025-01-01
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Imagine your agency’s leadership gave you $100 million to improve safety in your community, jurisdiction, or State. How would you spend it? What combinations of improvements can you add to your system with that budget that maximizes the reduction in fatalities and serious injuries? The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) developed a Proven Safety
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2022-01-01
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FHWA has identified and promotes widespread use of 28 Proven Safety Countermeasures (PSCs), which can offer significant, measurable impacts as part of any agency’s data-driven, systemic approach to improving safety. Most PSCs are eligible for HSIP funding and can help State, local, and Tribal agencies take a Safe System Approach and achieve signifi
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The purpose of this guide is to provide information to State and local agencies on work zone fatalities in the U.S. and the application of Safe System Approach principles to work zone planning, design, operations, and management. This includes describing work zone applications of FHWA’s Proven Safety Countermeasures (PSCs), a collection of counterm
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2024-01-01
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From 2017 to 2021, over 83,000 people died on rural roadways; this accounts for 43 percent of all roadway deaths despite only 20 percent of the U.S. population residing in these areas and only 31 percent of vehicle miles traveled occurring in rural areas. Furthermore, 43 percent of speed- related fatalities, 56 percent of roadway departure fataliti
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The Proven Safety Countermeasure Initiative (PSCi) is a collection of 28 countermeasures and strategies effective in reducing roadway fatalities and serious injuries on our Nation’s highways. Transportation agencies are strongly encouraged to consider widespread implementation of PSCs to accelerate the achievement of local, State, and National safe
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2021-01-01
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The FHWA has identified and is promoting widespread use of a set of 28 Proven Safety Countermeasures that can offer significant, measurable impacts as part of any agency’s data-driven, systemic approach to improving safety. These strategies are designed to enhance safety on all kinds of roads—from rural to urban, from high-volume freeways to less t
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