and workforce development.

Details

• Alternative Title:
  Transportation safety data and analysis Volume 3 ; Framework for highway safety mitigation and workforce development
• Creators:
  Schultz, Grant G. ; Dudley, Steven C. ; Saito, Mitsuru
• Corporate Creators:
  Brigham Young University. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Corporate Contributors:
  Utah. Division of Traffic & Safety ; Utah. Dept. of Transportation. Research Division
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Highway safety
  • Medians
  • Manuals
  • Binomial distributions
  • Bayes' theorem
  • Empirical methods
  • Crashes
  • Evaluation
  • Roads--Utah--Safety measures
  • Median strips--Evaluation
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• Publication/ Report Number:
  UT-10.12c
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Utah
• Edition:
  Sept. 2009-May 2011.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Utah. Dept. of Transportation. Research Division
• Abstract:
  Safety has always been an important component in the planning, design, and operation of highways. In an effort ; to reduce crashes occurring on highway facilities, the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, and Efficient Transportation ; Equity Act - A Legacy for Users of 2005 established a new Highway Safety Improvement Program that ; encourages the integration of safety into the decision-making process and facilitates the expenditure of funds for ; highway safety improvement. A framework for highway safety mitigation is outlined in this report that provides ; a logical and comprehensive context within which efforts to improve highway safety can be made. This ; framework has been developed around the Roadway Safety Management Process contained in the Highway ; Safety Manual and has six primary steps: 1) Network Screening; 2) Diagnosis; 3) Countermeasure Selection; ; 4) Economic Appraisal; 5) Project Prioritization; and 6) Effectiveness Evaluation. ; The application of this framework and the predictive methods of safety analysis it entails requires ; familiarity with the latest advances in highway safety research and practices. Therefore, recommendations on ; safety workforce development are presented along with a summary of possible training resources. ; The framework for highway safety mitigation and safety workforce development recommendations ; provided in this report are part of an ongoing effort to improve highway safety across the state of Utah and will ; play an important role in training the next generation of safety experts that will be able to meet the highway ; safety needs of tomorrow.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  10-9103
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/23084/dot_23084_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.11 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d0b18264f5b194d75a4bb341c0df869d838867117633da9e0ea15396b251f2b522b58aea5c52e779b36a9642f172a072d7a7f6c756e01926d631ed027ab8ca53