Ensuring Consistency in Decision Making: Why and How Your State Should Develop a State CMF List

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Ensuring Consistency in Decision Making: Why and How Your State Should Develop a State CMF List

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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
Subject/TRT Terms:

Benefit Cost Analysis Countermeasures Crashes Crash Modification Factors Decision Making
Publication/ Report Number:

FHWA-SA-17-023
Resource Type:

Brief
Geographical Coverage:

United States
Corporate Publisher:

United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
Abstract:

A Crash Modification Factor (CMF) is a numerical value that shows the expected change in crashes after implementing a countermeasure. It provides a quantitative estimate to replace anecdotal estimates of the safety effect of the countermeasure in benefit/cost analyses or project funding requests.
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