S-HAL : safety handbook for locals.

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• Corporate Creators:
  University of Missouri--Columbia. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Corporate Contributors:
  Mid-America Transportation Center
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Handbooks
  • Traffic safety
  • Safety management
  • Forecasting
  • Local transportation
  • Accident data
  • Traffic accidents
  • Traffic data
  • Performance measurement
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Missouri
• Edition:
  4th ed.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Missouri. Dept. of Transportation
• Abstract:
  The Safety Handbook for Locals (S-HAL) is intended to be a comprehensive ; traffic safety resource for all local communities in Missouri, be it cities or ; counties. The S-HAL mirrors the national Highway Safety Manual (HSM) ; (AASHTO, 2010) in using a systematic and data-driven approach to ; improving traffic safety. The HSM is expected to significantly influence local policy and ; engineering practice, in the same way that the Highway Capacity Manual transformed ; traffic impact analysis for planning and site development. It is important that the S-HAL is consistent with the principles and techniques promoted in the HSM, which ; was developed using a wealth of national highway safety knowledge and experience; ; the S-HAL takes advantage of the same wellspring of knowledge. The HSM is divided ; into four major parts. Part A discusses fundamentals of traffic safety, including human ; factors. Part B presents the safety management process, namely, network screening, ; diagnosis, countermeasure design, economic appraisal, project prioritization, and safety ; effectiveness evaluation. Part C describes predictive methods for rural highways, and ; urban and suburban arterials. Part D lists crash modification factors for a wide range of ; transportation facilities and treatments. The S-HAL covers the same topics as the HSM ; but not in as much detail. Also, the S-HAL focuses on facilities that are of more ; interest to local communities; thus freeway and expressway facilities are not covered in ; the S-HAL. Even though the types of topics covered in the HSM and the S-HAL are ; similar, the S-HAL is organized into seven chapters instead of four parts. Topics ; covered in the S-HAL include establishing a traffic records system, screening for ; problem locations, analyzing conflict and crash patterns, designing safety ; improvements, conducting road safety audits, and accessing national and regional ; safety resources. The S-HAL can be considered a gateway to HSM, since it introduces ; readers to the theory and techniques presented in the HSM.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/28755/dot_28755_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 7.66 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:09ba8b04d023fd48c6fc048e64aaa5a1f16e0717423c9fe15468c8ace194b7ba