Highway Safety Data: Costs, Quality, and Strategies for Improvement, Research Report

Details

• Creators:
  Pfefer, Ronald C. ; Raub, Richard A. ; Lucke, Roy E.
• Corporate Creators:
  Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Traffic Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Crash Data Crash Injuries Data Collection Highway Safety Inventory Medical Data Roadway Inventory Safety Data
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-RD-96-191
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1500953
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Research report Dec 1991-Jan 1996
• Contracting Officer:
  Paniati, Jeff
• Corporate Publisher:
  Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
• Abstract:
  The goal of this project was to analyze the collection and management of highway safety data by identifying issues and costs, and proposing means of resolving those issues and reducing the costs. Initial emphasis addressed known elements of the highway safety system with emphasis on collecting and storing relevant data. Sources included the literature and what the states, local agencies, and researchers throughout the Nation were doing to improve data handling for the three largest sources: traffic crash, roadway inventory, and crash injury (emergency medical services and trauma). Although a review of uses was important, a major investigation remained outside the scope of the project. Visits to various providers of data throughout the United States helped identify and classify issues along with exemplary practices. A total of 41 issues were listed which affected collecting, storing, and managing traffic crash, roadway inventory and medical data. The most important issue is that of quality, with data accuracy the most critical. Lack of coverage is becoming an increasing problem which affects information used to recommend countermeasures. A major thrust of the research was directed toward identifying the costs of collecting, reporting, and managing safety data. Lack of cost data or lack of applicability of most data collected for roadway inventory and crash injury preclude an extension of the cost model beyond that of crash reporting.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTFH61-91-C-00051
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/4558/dot_4558_DS1.pdf
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